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From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de>
Subject: Re: gnu/24903: Patch to remove 32bit limit from tar
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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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