Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 17:50:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnu/24903: Patch to remove 32bit limit from tar Message-ID: <200205290050.g4T0o9V63140@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/24903; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: olli@secnetix.de
Subject: Re: gnu/24903: Patch to remove 32bit limit from tar
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 02:47:01 +0200
This problem is know with this version of tar.
I updated the patch for buffer.c - but NOT tested it. There was no
changes to tar.h as far as I can see on my system
FreeBSD cerberus.home.sumirati.de 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #2: Mon
Mar 18 12:35:37 CET 2002
--- buffer.c.orig Wed May 29 02:11:56 2002
+++ buffer.c.new Wed May 29 02:13:01 2002
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@
{
int err;
int copy_back;
- static long bytes_written = 0;
+ static off_t bytes_written = 0;
if (f_checkpoint && !(++checkpoint % 10))
msg ("Write checkpoint %d\n", checkpoint);
Another solution is to included a newer version of gnu tar as discussed
in stable
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=423267+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20020519.freebsd-stable
Related PRs are:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3552
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=gnu/3553 (already closed)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/28820
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/21208
I send a close request to those since this is the most promising one.
Thanks
Marc
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