From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 06:51:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (mergefps): Do not allocate at least sort_size bytes for each merge buffer.
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_15~310
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a3433a7698bac6482a03cfb30334b4701ea60dc;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(mergefps): Do not allocate at least sort_size bytes for each merge buffer.
Instead, allocate at least sort_size bytes total.
---

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 1f59a9b735..17c42633ff 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ mergefps (char **files, register int nfiles,
     {
       fps[i] = xfopen (files[i], "r");
       initbuf (&buffer[i], sizeof (struct line),
-	       MAX (merge_buffer_size, sort_size));
+	       MAX (merge_buffer_size, sort_size / nfiles));
       /* If a file is empty, eliminate it from future consideration. */
       while (i < nfiles && !fillbuf (&buffer[i], fps[i], files[i]))
 	{