This diff fixes the overflow handling in dd(1). Before, if provided an argument of SIZE_T_MAX, dd(1) would exit with
dd: count: Undefined error: 0 since strtoul(3) doesn't set errno when its argument is equal to ULONG_MAX. Now, dd(1) handles SIZE_T_MAX gracefully. Index: args.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/dd/args.c,v retrieving revision 1.25 diff -u -b -w -p -r1.25 args.c --- args.c 21 May 2014 06:23:02 -0000 1.25 +++ args.c 14 Jun 2014 04:02:51 -0000 @@ -196,8 +196,7 @@ static void f_count(char *arg) { - if ((cpy_cnt = get_bsz(arg)) == 0) - cpy_cnt = (size_t)-1; + cpy_cnt = get_bsz(arg); } static void @@ -323,8 +322,9 @@ get_bsz(char *val) size_t num, t; char *expr; + errno = 0; num = strtoul(val, &expr, 0); - if (num == SIZE_T_MAX) /* Overflow. */ + if (num == SIZE_T_MAX && errno == ERANGE) /* Overflow. */ err(1, "%s", oper); if (expr == val) /* No digits. */ errx(1, "%s: illegal numeric value", oper); Index: dd.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/dd/dd.c,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -b -w -p -r1.18 dd.c --- dd.c 1 Jun 2013 16:46:49 -0000 1.18 +++ dd.c 14 Jun 2014 04:02:51 -0000 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) atexit(summary); - if (cpy_cnt != (size_t)-1) { + if (cpy_cnt != 0) { while (files_cnt--) dd_in(); }