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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-05-07 09:32:00 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-05-08 18:32:58 +0200
commita6f94fcebc1645b401eedacbffb5e2ebdedf0f95 (patch)
treef53d31b2f1d8555e5d3fad86782e592aa71a0c33 /src/split.c
parent30071b2f5cb8135154cbc7bb0ec76c5926d2b983 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-a6f94fcebc1645b401eedacbffb5e2ebdedf0f95.tar.xz
split: avoid apparent infloop when splitting /dev/zero w/-n on the Hurd
* src/split.c (main): Use stat.st_size only for regular files. Samuel Thibault reported in http://bugs.gnu.org/11424 that the /dev/zero-splitting tests would appear to infloop on GNU/Hurd, because /dev/zero's st_size is LONG_MAX. It was only a problem when using the --number (-n) option. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. This bug was introduced with the --number option, via commit v8.7-25-gbe10739
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/split.c b/src/split.c
index 99f639016..062aedea9 100644
--- a/src/split.c
+++ b/src/split.c
@@ -1339,7 +1339,9 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", infile);
if (in_blk_size == 0)
in_blk_size = io_blksize (stat_buf);
- file_size = stat_buf.st_size;
+
+ /* stat.st_size is valid only for regular files. For others, use 0. */
+ file_size = S_ISREG (stat_buf.st_mode) ? stat_buf.st_size : 0;
if (split_type == type_chunk_bytes || split_type == type_chunk_lines)
{