Package: coreutils Version: 9.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
We all know that for a 4-byte number the maximum value is 2^32-1, and for an 8-byte one ‒ 2^64-1. Even if we accept that for some bizzarre reason shuf wants to be limited to 4-byte numbers, then it should at least actually allow all of them. Why, then: -- >8 -- $ bc -q 2^32 4294967296 $ shuf -n1 -i 0-4294967296 shuf: invalid input range: ‘4294967296’: Value too large for defined data type $ shuf -n1 -i 0-4294967295 shuf: invalid input range: ‘0-4294967295’ $ shuf -n1 -i 0-4294967294 2310362399 -- >8 -- and -- >8 -- $ bc 2^64 18446744073709551616 $ shuf -n1 -i 0-18446744073709551616 shuf: invalid input range: ‘18446744073709551616’: Value too large for defined data type $ shuf -n1 -i 0-18446744073709551615 shuf: invalid input range: ‘0-18446744073709551615’ $ shuf -n1 -i 0-18446744073709551614 16168582199677063639 -- >8 -- I mean, to hell with the highlighted bit of the range being different, or there being no error string, apparently, right, but why can't you just generate an integer? Why is the operational range apparently one smaller than [0, 0xFFFFFFFF]? This is disproportionately worse on ILP32 platforms given #1027412; if this were just one off the end of 2^64, eh, who cares. Best, наб -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: x32 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64, i386 Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.3.1-2 ii libattr1 1:2.5.1-3 ii libc6 2.36-6 ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg1-1.1 ii libselinux1 3.4-1+b4 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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