From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Mar 30 11:16:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi (h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi [193.166.84.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAEF737B71B for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:16:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi) Received: from h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi (chu@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2UJGhW04820; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:16:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi) Message-ID: <3AC4DB99.62BFF666@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:16:41 +0300 From: Vladimir Tchoukharev X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, fi, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/25620: tar does not handle existing large minor numbers References: <20988.985978201@critter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Send a patch :-) > OK, you asked for it... $ diff -u tar.1.orig tar.1 --- tar.1.orig Fri Mar 30 21:56:26 2001 +++ tar.1 Fri Mar 30 22:08:33 2001 @@ -569,4 +569,5 @@ The tar file format is a semi fixed width field format, and the field for device numbers were designed for 16 bit (8 major, 8 minor) and can not absorb our 32 bit (8 major, 16+8 minor) numbers. +Currently it is extended to support 21-bit minor numbers. Best regards, V. Tchoukharev > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message