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  1. Bug #591969
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 591969

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Jim Meyering (meyering) wrote : Re: [Bug 591969] Re: dd: cryptic error message when bs=<unreasonably large value>

Dave Gilbert wrote:
> Just reading the patch, I'm not sure that's solving both cases - i.e.
> 1) That there is a problem if your value is too large for RAM (i.e. a memory exhausted)
> 2) There is something saying 'invalid number' on large values, and that seems to depend on the word
> size of the host.
>
> I think the original reporter was confused by case (2); IMHO 'Memory
> Exhausted' is enough diagnostics for (1).

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