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From: Andrew <andrew@pubnix.net>
Subject: Re: bin/28820: tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB
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The following reply was made to PR bin/28820; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew <andrew@pubnix.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, andrew@fortress.org
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Subject: Re: bin/28820: tar and cpio cannot deal with files > 2GB
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 22:47:45 -0400

 I have investigated TAR code in create.c.
 Problem is that counter is a 32 bit long (save_totsize) see line 198.
 Should be of type off_t to deal with numbers > 2,147,483,647
 
 Probably similar problem with cpio.
 
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