Re: LFS bug in tail

[Jim Meyering]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> This fixes an LFS bug in tail.  On systems where sizeof (size_t) < sizeof
> (off_t) an overflow can occur when bytes_remaining is assigned, so that
> tail on a big file > 4G does not work correctly.

Hi Andreas!

Thank you both!
I've applied your patch.
It will be in coreutils-4.5.2.

> 2002-09-27  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>
>
>       * src/tail.c (tail_bytes): Change type of bytes_remaining to off_t
>       to avoid overflow.  Reported by Hans Lermen.
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