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bug#11433: Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#11433: Bug in GNU sort with large value for the -S option |
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Date: |
Tue, 08 May 2012 09:51:37 -0700 |
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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.