tail: fix big number handling and error message quoting#10155
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* tail: fix big number handling and error message quoting * fix clippy: remove needless borrows in test_tail
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When looking at the test cases in tail.pl I concerned that I could find equivalent examples in our integration tests that expect different results. It turns out that this is because the behavior of tail actually changed in 9.6 to clamp large integers instead of throwing an error, so some of our code was no longer valid.
Because we already have the helper functions that follow this behavior the change is very simple, changing
parse_signed_numtoparse_signed_num_maxand then changing:to
Then there was an error message that had an extra quote and now all of the
tail.pltest cases are passing