On 29/12/2022 13:49, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
Hi Padraig,
On 12/28/22 15:11, Pádraig Brady wrote:
* src/wc.c (wc): Use off_t rather than size_t
when calculating where to seek to, so that
we don't seek to a too low offset on systems
where size_t < off_t, which would result in
many read() calls to determine the file size.
* tests/misc/wc-proc.sh: Add a test case
sufficient for 32 bit systems at least.
Reported athttps://bugs.debian.org/1027101
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src/wc.c | 2 +-
tests/misc/wc-proc.sh | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Nice.
As this is a user-visible change, I think this may deserve a NEWS
entry, doesn't it?
Pushed with NEWS entry:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=266b7cbc8
cheers,
Pádraig
