Re: bug in split - improper handling of a short read

[Jim Meyering]

"Boehn, Gunnar von" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think I have found a bug in split.
> My split version is (coreutils) 4.5.4
...
> At a random points of the process,
> tar is to slow and split can not read the full expected pipe size of 4k.

Thank you for the report.
That was indeed a bug in 4.5.4.
It was probably fixed by this change, for 4.5.8.

2003-02-19  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
        ...
        * src/split.c: Include "full-read.h".
        (bytes_split, lines_split, line_bytes_split): Use full_read,
        not safe_read.   The way split was using the latter, a short read
        could cause split to terminate before EOF.

As Paul suggested, you should get a newer version.