"Boehn, Gunnar von" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I have found a bug in split.
> My split version is (coreutils) 4.5.4
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> At a random points of the process,
> tar is to slow and split can not read the full expected pipe size of 4k.
Thank you for the report.
That was indeed a bug in 4.5.4.
It was probably fixed by this change, for 4.5.8.
2003-02-19 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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* src/split.c: Include "full-read.h".
(bytes_split, lines_split, line_bytes_split): Use full_read,
not safe_read. The way split was using the latter, a short read
could cause split to terminate before EOF.
As Paul suggested, you should get a newer version.
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