From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri May 10 5:21:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from tirion.argosnet.com (ANice-202-1-4-25.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.14.219.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA8D37B401 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 05:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from osgiliath.argosnet.com (osgiliath.argoshome.com [192.168.0.10]) by tirion.argosnet.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4ACLP401783; Fri, 10 May 2002 14:21:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from llevier@argosnet.com) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020510141612.01fec170@belegost.cimternet.com> X-Sender: llevier@belegost.cimternet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:21:21 +0200 To: Paul Eggert From: Laurent LEVIER Subject: Re: GNU tar port on FreeBSD bug... Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200205091850.g49IoWe03311@shade.twinsun.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020509163545.01f41690@belegost.cimternet.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020509163545.01f41690@belegost.cimternet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Paul, The fact is I dont have a version number on the program itself as arguments and --help does not help. This is why I added FreeBSD infos... "stringing" it, the only thing I found to help is: "GNU tar version 1.11.2" Brgrds At 20:50 09/05/2002, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 16:41:29 +0200 > > From: Laurent LEVIER > > > > 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. Laurent LEVIER IT Systems & Networks Security Expert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message