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coreutils package

  1. Bug #591969
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 591969

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :

Hi Jim,
  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).

Dave