Re: [PATCH] sed: avoid data loss when an input line is 2^31 bytes or longer

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/11/2011 05:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I was surprised to see that sed -i could nuke its input.
> Even sed without -i misbehaves:
>
>      $ perl -le 'print "v"x(2**31-1)' |sed 's/^/v/' |wc -c
>      0
>
> Here's the fix:
>
>  From 81ce070727b225a1e23e5a48f775811c8a9e7366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering<address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:22:26 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] avoid silent data loss when an input line is 2^31 bytes or
>   longer

Thanks, applied.

Paolo