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Diffstat (limited to 'src/dd.c')
-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) { |