From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 26 10:58:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759C716A42C for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 10:58:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCDB43D5A for ; Fri, 26 May 2006 10:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail02.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4QAw1SG024714 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:02 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4QAw1dD001630; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4QAw11L001629; Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:58:01 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: "Patrick M. Hausen" Message-ID: <20060526105801.GE744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200605251845.k4PIjdx7070553@freefall.freebsd.org> <4476457A.5050800@alumni.rice.edu> <200605260837.k4Q8btpl031485@freefall.freebsd.org> <4476C99C.50200@alumni.rice.edu> <20060526093443.GC94280@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060526093443.GC94280@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:58:05 -0000 On Fri, 2006-May-26 11:34:43 +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 jmz jmz 4312 Apr 16 1947 supclkrd.prg >Since there cannot be a date before January 1st 1970, 0:00 on >any Unix system, i guess there's something seriously broken here. Why do you say that? time_t is signed so it can represent a date prior to 1970. In theory, a file prepared on an earlier computer could have been transferred onto a Unix system whilst retaining its original modification time. In this particular case, the date seems unlikely. That said, it is a perfectly valid date and it would be nice if tar could support it - though tar(5) states dates before the epoch are not handled consistently. -- Peter Jeremy