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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: more reliable directory traversal when creati
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: more reliable directory traversal when creating archives |
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:11:40 -0700 |
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On 09/07/2010 02:37 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> on NetBSD 5.0.2 it's just 128. While most
> distribution tarballs fit easily within such a limitation, when you
> use tar to perform backups, you might find such a low number to be a
> serious limitation. Even 1024 seems far too low for a tool like tar.
Yeowch. What are those NetBSD guys _thinking_ (:-)? Anyway, I will try to
fix 'tar' so that it doesn't need a file descriptor for each level of
the directory hierarchy.