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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f0e46b9ee..7852e9f8a 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3409,8 +3409,10 @@ are not split even if they overlap a partition, the files written can be larger or smaller than the partition size, and even empty if a line/record is so long as to completely overlap the partition. -For @samp{r} mode, the size of @var{input} is irrelevant, -and so can be a pipe for example. +When the input is a pipe or some other special file where the size +cannot easily be determined, there is no trouble for @samp{r} mode +because the size of the input is irrelevant. For other modes, such an +input is first copied to a temporary to determine its size. @item -a @var{length} @itemx --suffix-length=@var{length} |