bug#30520: sed: silently fail substitution for 2GB+ single-line file

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 06:51:04AM +0000, YushiOMOTE wrote:
>> When I pass a 2GB+-single-line to sed for substitution, sed exits with
>> success status code but it silently fails substitution.
...
>> Or, we can check if the value of line length exceeds INT_MAX before
>> reaching `re_search`. (`grep` checks it and returns with error status code)
>
> This is likely the simplest solution for now, without changing gnulib itself.

Thank you both. I too prefer this approach. Would you like to do that, Assaf?