From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:35:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): When failing to truncate, mention both the seek block count
X-Git-Tag: v5.90~187
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27747f4a66fb884d4dbe2a938febf680a01f21aa;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(main): When failing to truncate, mention both the seek block count
and the block size, in case the block size is very large.
---

diff --git a/src/dd.c b/src/dd.c
index 2b99f76b50..c47249abb1 100644
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -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)
 	    {