Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 15:45:04 -0500 From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/937: rcp -p fails on files with negative timestamps Message-ID: <199601072045.PAA12899@zip.io.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199601072050.MAA13200@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 937
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: rcp -p fails on files with negative timestamps
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 7 12:50:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Brian Tao
>Organization:
Internex Online (shell.io.org), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
>Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:
FreeBSD zip.io.org 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Dec 30 14:19:27 EST 1995 taob@flinch.io.org:/src/2.1.0-RELEASE/sys/compile/ZIP i386
>Description:
I got this error on the client side of a large rcp (about 21
megabytes in total, only got about 3 megabytes through) while
transferring a directory hierarchy from one machine to another:
cabal# rcp -pr slynx zip:/usr/local/lib
rcp: protocol error: mtime.sec not delimited
rcp: lost connection
The file that caused this:
cabal# ls -l about_lynx-dev.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 taob wheel 2271 Jul 1 1906 about_lynx-dev.html
rcp'ing just that file over generates the same error, but it takes
about 10 seconds for it to appear. No disk or network activity is
done during that time.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a file with a modification time of before Jan 1 1970 and
rcp -p it to another machine.
>Fix:
Touching the files with the negative timestamps is a workaround.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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