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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-05-09 23:32:02 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-05-09 23:32:24 -0700
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downloadcoreutils-2c436decf8bc57a9173c940a26c80358d499e1b6.tar.xz
stat: don't report negative file size as huge positive number
* src/stat.c (print_stat): Use out_int, not out_uint for stat.st_size. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
split --number=C /dev/null no longer appears to infloop on GNU/Hurd
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.8]
+ stat no longer reports a negative file size as a huge positive number.
+ [bug present since 'stat' was introduced in fileutils-4.1.9]
+
** New features
fmt now accepts the --goal=WIDTH (-g) option.