Date: 11 Sep 2000 17:59:25 -0000 From: trost@cloud.rain.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/21208: tar does not support 2.5 GB file Message-ID: <20000911175925.88789.qmail@grey.cloud.rain.com>
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>Number: 21208 >Category: bin >Synopsis: tar does not support 2.5 GB file >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Sep 11 11:00:03 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bill Trost >Release: FreeBSD 4.1-RC2 i386 >Organization: Trost Computing >Environment: >Description: When reading a file larger than about 2 GB in a tar file, tar claims that the file size is negative; e.g. $ tar tfvv /tmp/! -rw-r----- 236/236 -1751465006 Aug 1 15:13 2000 bigfile tar: Skipping to next file header... >How-To-Repeat: Make a big file. Tar it. Untar it. >Fix: I assume that someone is treating the size as a signed int when they shouldn't be. For what it's worth, GNU tar 1.13 can read the file in question. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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