[Bug-tar] Re: "unexpected field value in snapshot file" error (bug #184870)

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:19:33PM -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> # less ~/tar_incremental.snar
> GNU tar-1.16-2
> address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden
> address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@temp/address@hidden@address@hidden@1186159126^@
> address@hidden@address@hidden/address@hidden@^@
> 
> (Note the "18446744071852258736" value which appears in the temp/proc
> entry.)

For what it's worth, in case the information proves helpful debugging
this issue, I ran a simple C program which called "stat" on this
directory and then called
   printf("tv_nsec:   %lu\n", sb.st_mtim.tv_nsec);

The output of this was "tv_nsec:   2437674416".  

                                                Nathan
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