Re: [Bug-tar] new/old extract problems with 6GB sparse file

[Joerg Delker]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > $ tar -xvjf jake.tar.bz2 --totals jake.ntfs Total bytes read:
> > 3155937280 (3.0GiB, 3.2MiB/s)
> >
> > This results in an extracted file of length 1997337088 bytes
> > (~1.9GB), which looks very suspicious like a 4GB overflow!?
>
>  Yes, indeed. Can you please send me config.log file (created after
>  you run configure in GNU tar source directory).

config.log is attached.

> > $ tar -xvjf jake.tar.bz2 -O --totals | cat >jake.ntfs jake.ntfs
> > tar: jake.ntfs: Cannot seek to 61198336: Invalid argument
>
>  Please, try the attached patch. It disables seek autodetection on the
>  output file descriptor if -O is used.

That has still the same result:
/tmp/usr/local/bin/tar: jake_winxp.ntfs: Cannot seek to 61198336: 
Invalid argument
Total bytes read: 3155937280 (3.0GiB, 3.7MiB/s)
/tmp/usr/local/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Regards,
Joerg

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