Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug

[Ondrej Vasik]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> address@hidden ha escrit:
> 
> > "15015536189 of type off_t is out of range 0..8589934591".
> > 
> > I am using latest stable version directly from your website under Ubuntu 
> > server x86-32.
> 
> The problem is, there is no such diagnostic message in tar 1.25. What
> version of tar are you using? Are you sure you reproduced the message
> exactly as it appeared to you?
> 
He mentioned he uses czech locales, so he probably made a mistake in the
translation to english. In the screenshot he provided is the message
which is still present in tar-1.25 - in to_chars_subst() function
create.c:267 . 

It reminds me I had similar report in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516309 , however I had
problems with the reproducer and after that it got off my radar because
of another bugzillas. In comment
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516309#c17 may be a pointer
where is the culprit of this rare problem with huge files.

Greetings,
         Ondrej Vasik