From e5c19734c8a3d7f3b94a25887149b261ccffd1a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: electricboogie <32370782+electricboogie@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:38:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Change Default Buffer to usize::MAX

---
 src/uu/sort/src/sort.rs | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/uu/sort/src/sort.rs b/src/uu/sort/src/sort.rs
index aa2e1bfe7..55362d4ad 100644
--- a/src/uu/sort/src/sort.rs
+++ b/src/uu/sort/src/sort.rs
@@ -93,8 +93,7 @@ static NEGATIVE: char = '-';
 static POSITIVE: char = '+';
 
 static DEFAULT_TMPDIR: &str = r"/tmp";
-// 4GB buffer for Vec<Line> before we dump to disk, never used
-static DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE: usize = 4000000000;
+static DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE: usize = usize::MAX;
 
 #[derive(Eq, Ord, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Clone, Copy)]
 enum SortMode {
@@ -142,11 +141,11 @@ impl GlobalSettings {
         let suf_usize: usize = match suf_str.to_uppercase().as_str() {
             // SI Units
             "B" => 1usize,
-            "K" => 1024usize,
-            "M" => 1024000usize,
-            "G" => 1024000000usize,
-            // GNU regards empty human numeric value as 1024 bytes
-            _ => 1024usize,
+            "K" => 1000usize,
+            "M" => 1000000usize,
+            "G" => 1000000000usize,
+            // GNU regards empty human numeric values as K by default
+            _ => 1000usize,
         };
         num_usize * suf_usize
     }