Pádraig Brady wrote: > For example, if splitting to 4G files (max on VFAT for example), > and `split` is built without large file support, then we would > have only failed after about 2G was written. If the input is > currently less than that, we won't know about the issue until later. > > I'm not planning to apply for this release, > but will if anyone thinks it's important enough. ... Thanks. That looks like a fine patch. Deferring it sounds good to me, too.
> Subject: [PATCH] split: fail immediately if impossible to create a large file > > * src/split.c (main): Error if -[bC] values > OFF_T_MAX > * tests/misc/split-fail: Adjust for the new lower limits
