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Re: inaccurate error message from tail
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: inaccurate error message from tail |
Date: |
Sun Sep 29 14:09:02 2002 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Mikko Tuumanen <address@hidden> 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;
}