Mikko Tuumanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ tail --version > tail (textutils) 2.1 > Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering. > > Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > $ tail -c 1,2 > tail: 1,2: is so large that it is not representable > $ tail -c foo > tail: foo: invalid number of bytes > > Shouldn't that 1,2 give also "invalid numer of bytes" in stead of "too > large"?
Yes, indeed! Thanks for the report. I've just fixed that for the upcoming coreutils-4.5.2. It'll appear here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/ Here's the patch: Index: tail.c =================================================================== RCS file: /fetish/cu/src/tail.c,v retrieving revision 1.185 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.185 tail.c --- tail.c 28 Sep 2002 09:21:17 -0000 1.185 +++ tail.c 29 Sep 2002 18:04:11 -0000 @@ -1460,7 +1460,7 @@ parse_options (int argc, char **argv, strtol_error s_err; uintmax_t n; s_err = xstrtoumax (optarg, NULL, 10, &n, "bkm"); - if (s_err == LONGINT_INVALID) + if (s_err != LONGINT_OK) { error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, "%s: %s", optarg, (c == 'n' @@ -1468,13 +1468,9 @@ parse_options (int argc, char **argv, : _("invalid number of bytes"))); } - if (s_err != LONGINT_OK) - error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, - _("%s: is so large that it is not representable"), optarg); - if (OFF_T_MAX < n) error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, - _("%s is larger than the maximum file size on this system"), + _("%s is larger than the maximum file size on this system"), optarg); *n_units = (off_t) n; } _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
