Re: [Bug-tar] This apparent 63-character remote tarfilepath limit

[Joerg Schilling]

Ed Leaver <address@hidden> wrote:

> e.g.:
> address@hidden leaver]$ tar -cvf
> ssslnxm:/home/leaver/tartest/file6789012345678901234567890123456789.tar
> tmp
> tmp/
> tmp/foo
> address@hidden leaver]$ echo $?
> 0
>
> works fine, has 63 characters in the remote tarfilepath. Add one more:
> address@hidden leaver]$ tar -cvf
> ssslnxm:/home/leaver/tartest/file67890123456789012345678901234567890.tar
> tmp
> tar:
> ssslnxm\:/home/leaver/tartest/file67890123456789012345678901234567890.tar: 
> Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> address@hidden leaver]$ echo $?

This is a problem caused by the GNU implementation of the rmt protocol.

If you like to avoid this limitation, just use the rmt implementation
from star ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

... it may be that you need to replace the rmt client implementation
in GNU tar by star's librmt in case you like to benefit from the
new RMT Protocol version 1

The new RMT Protocol version 1 is the rmt protocol extension, Sun and UCB
did agree on ~ 15 years ago. Sun already decided to replace Sun's current
implementation which has been done by UCB buy the rmt implementation from
star around April 2005.

BTW: any application that likes to avoid interoperability problems caused
by previous versions of the rmt protocol should convert to the new RMT Protocol 
version 1 anyway.

Jörg

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