From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 11 11: 0: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A18F37B42C for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA27739; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from grey.cloud.rain.com (c1029014-a.bvrtn1.or.home.com [24.12.160.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F11E37B42C for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 88790 invoked by uid 236); 11 Sep 2000 17:59:25 -0000 Message-Id: <20000911175925.88789.qmail@grey.cloud.rain.com> Date: 11 Sep 2000 17:59:25 -0000 From: trost@cloud.rain.com Reply-To: trost@cloud.rain.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: bin/21208: tar does not support 2.5 GB file Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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