bug(sort): large --parallel values is accepted, gnu just ignore them
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Hi, uutils mainteners
we confirmed the uu sort --parallel 4096, is accepted and that is unrealistic, the gnu just simply ignores the flag because large
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/release$ ./sort --parallel 4096 /usr/share/dict/words
we confirmed that via using the following
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Start by locating the uu sort implementation and its --parallel option, then reproduce the reported behavior with a large value such as 4096. Clarify the intended GNU-compatible behavior in the issue discussion and verify the change against that expectation.
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- Tech stack
- rust
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- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
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