kern/111079: [libarchive] problem with big file

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Sun Apr 1 02:11:48 UTC 2007


Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> With a .tar file that include a big file (6 Go),
>> bsdtar fails to extract or list the files ...
> 
> I believe this is fixed in both 6-STABLE and -CURRENT.
> Colin Percival did some work in this
> area a little while ago.

Yes, it should now work in -CURRENT due to the change to use off_t
for client skip functions, and should now work in RELENG_6 due to
archive_decompressor_none_skip not asking the client skip function
to handle anything larger than SSIZE_MAX bytes.

Colin Percival


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