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cp(1) tries to allocate too much memory if filesystem blocksizes are unusual

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Korn Andras <korn-gnu.org <at> elan.rulez.org>, 59382-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59382: cp(1) tries to allocate too much memory if filesystem blocksizes are unusual
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 23:24:01 +0000

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On 02/01/2023 23:18, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-01-02 15:03, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 20/11/2022 03:50, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> Although we inadvertently removed support for weird devices in 2009 by
>>> commit 55efc5f3ee485b3e31a91c331f07c89aeccc4e89, and nobody seems to
>>> care (because people use dd or whatever to deal with weird devices), I
>>> think it'd be better to limit the fix to regular files. And while we're
>>> at it we might as well resurrect support for weird devices.
>>
>> Paul I'm happy with your patch for this.
>> I've rebased and tweaked the summary and NEWS slightly in the attached.
>>
>> OK for me to apply?
> 
> Sure, that looks good, thanks.

I forgot about documenting the reinstated I/O block size multiple constraint,
which I'll do with the attached.

cheers,
Pádraig

[copy-doc-io-size.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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