Could you please try this patch?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00160.html
It should appear in the next coreutils version, but I'd like to verify
that it works for you. That patch does work on HP-UX 11.11 but as far
as I know nobody has checked it on Fedora Core.
Tha
Bob and Tim,
Sorry this waited so long, but I had to work-around the issue and didn't get
back to checking it out.
I checked all the ulimit suggestions and all said unlimited. As I burn DVD iso's
from this machine, I regularly generate > 2GB files with no difficulty.
I copied a version of sort fr
Tim Waugh wrote:
> Another remote possibility is that a ulimit came into play, of
> course.
I don't think it is so remote of a possibility. I have definitely
seen ulimit be unintentionally set forcing this behavior. I think you
made an excellent suggestion!
Keith Stanley wrote:
> Under Fedora C
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:29:07AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Keith Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Under Fedora Core 5 (and probably other versions), the program sort
> > (version 5.93) exits (without cleaning up temporary files) in any of the
> > temporary files reach the size of 2 G
Keith Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Under Fedora Core 5 (and probably other versions), the program sort
> (version 5.93) exits (without cleaning up temporary files) in any of the
> temporary files reach the size of 2 GB.
This sounds like you (or your installer) has built coreutils in
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