From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:30:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (parse_obsolescent_option): Do not limit the maximum
X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-2_0_12~19
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=676991e63002085ae302e101129cc48f56148d3e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(parse_obsolescent_option): Do not limit the maximum
line/byte count to be less than ULONG_MAX on systems where
OFF_T_MAX is larger.
---

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index 23ad663732..73b3ab717a 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -1360,13 +1360,13 @@ parse_obsolescent_option (int argc, const char *const *argv,
   else
     {
       strtol_error s_err;
-      unsigned long int tmp_ulong;
+      uintmax_t tmp;
       char *end;
 
-      s_err = xstrtoul (n_string, &end, 10, &tmp_ulong,
-			*n_string_end == 'b' ? "b" : NULL);
-      if (s_err == LONGINT_OK && tmp_ulong <= OFF_T_MAX)
-	*n_units = (off_t) tmp_ulong;
+      s_err = xstrtoumax (n_string, &end, 10, &tmp,
+			  *n_string_end == 'b' ? "b" : NULL);
+      if (s_err == LONGINT_OK && tmp <= OFF_T_MAX)
+	*n_units = (off_t) tmp;
       else
 	{
 	  /* Extract a NUL-terminated string for the error message.  */