Re: Archive value -1 is out of uintmax_t range 0..18446744073709551615

[John David Anglin]

> I am seeing the following warning when I list archives:
> 
> drwx------ root/sys          1 1993-04-05 23:29:46 ./.vue/Desktop/Five/
> gtar: Archive value -1 is out of uintmax_t range 0..18446744073709551615
> gtar: Archive value -1 is out of uintmax_t range 0..18446744073709551615
> drwx------ root/sys          1 1993-04-05 23:29:45 ./.vue/Desktop/Four/

I see what is causing this:

# ll -d nec cdrom
dr-xr-xr-x   1 4294967295 4294967295    2048 Apr 23  1997 cdrom
dr-xr-xr-x   1 4294967295 4294967295    4096 Oct 27 03:25 nec

These are mount points for cd-rom drives.  There must be a sign problem
with the user and group ids.

Dave
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