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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-09-16 09:35:47 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-09-16 09:35:47 +0000 |
commit | 27747f4a66fb884d4dbe2a938febf680a01f21aa (patch) | |
tree | 1805ff37215d4c48b97b9eb5fc8db86810a5b8d5 | |
parent | 31fc497b9a96d6bec4a342f74c753d47929ae30f (diff) | |
download | coreutils-27747f4a66fb884d4dbe2a938febf680a01f21aa.tar.xz |
(main): When failing to truncate, mention both the seek block count
and the block size, in case the block size is very large.
-rw-r--r-- | src/dd.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1654,7 +1654,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) uintmax_t size = seek_records * output_blocksize; if (OFF_T_MAX / output_blocksize < seek_records) - error (EXIT_FAILURE, EOVERFLOW, "seek=%"PRIuMAX"", seek_records); + error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, + _("offset too large: " + "cannot truncate to a length of seek=%"PRIuMAX"" + " (%lu-byte) blocks"), + seek_records, output_blocksize); if (ftruncate (STDOUT_FILENO, size) != 0) { |