GNU bug report logs - #11433
Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Rich Burridge <rich.burridge <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Rich Burridge <rich.burridge <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 11433 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11433: Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 09:51:37 -0700
On 05/08/2012 09:01 AM, Rich Burridge wrote:
>   $ /usr/bin/sort -S 4G <input >output
>   /usr/bin/sort: -S argument `4G' too large

I don't observe this behavior with
sort 8.16 on CentOS 5.8 on x86-64.

Perhaps you're running on 32-bit platforms,
for which 4 GiB is indeed too large?
If so, 'sort' is operating correctly.




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