Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 11:50:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> To: llevier@argosnet.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU tar port on FreeBSD bug... Message-ID: <200205091850.g49IoWe03311@shade.twinsun.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020509163545.01f41690@belegost.cimternet.com> (llevier@argosnet.com) References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020509163545.01f41690@belegost.cimternet.com>
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> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 16:41:29 +0200 > From: Laurent LEVIER <llevier@argosnet.com> > > I found this little bug on GNU tar port on FreeBSD 4.5-sp2 (world) > > tar tvf answers: > -rw-r--r-- laurent/smbusers 1317064704 Apr 1 12:39 2002 OsgiliathC.mtf > -rw-r--r-- laurent/smbusers -1448130560 Apr 1 18:57 2002 OsgiliathD.mtf You don't mention which version of GNU tar you're using, but many of the bugs in that area have been fixed in the latest test version, which you can find in: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz > Seems it is just a bad variable type problem to solve... It's a bit trickier than that, I'm afraid, as tar has to decode buggy size fields. It's a 36-bit size field in the POSIX tar format, but many 32-bit tar implementations create incorrect size fields for files with 2**31 bytes or more. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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