[bsdtar] strange compression with ^T command

[Boris Samorodov]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:58:51 -0700 Tim Kientzle wrote:

> Thanks for the report!  This was caused by an
> overflow in the compression calculation when the "in"
> bytes was larger than the "out" bytes.

> I just committed a fix as r209152.

Yep, it works. Thanks for the quick fix!

> Tim

> Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > -----
> > % uname -a
> > FreeBSD host.ipt.ru 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #4 r208799: Fri Jun  4 13:58:47 MSD 2010     bsam at host.ipt.ru:/storage/obj/storage/src/sys/HOST  i386
> >
> > % make extract
> > ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> > ===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
> > ===>  Extracting for eric5-5.0.0
> > => No checksum file (/m/home/bsam/shared/FreeBSD/exp/eric5/devel/eric5/distinfo).
> > load: 6.85  cmd: bsdtar 68052 [runnable] 131.55r 0.03u 0.30s 0% 2044k
> > In: 17512980 bytes, compression 1290122025%;  Out: 1502 files, 17509012 bytes
> > Current: eric5-5.0.0-RC1/eric/icons/default/drawEraser.png (1172 bytes)
> > load: 6.96  cmd: gzip 68051 [pipdwt] 150.90r 0.16u 0.00s 0% 1052k
> > In: 24466168 bytes, compression -1782936608%;  Out: 1821 files, 24460918 bytes
> > Current: eric5-5.0.0-RC1/eric/E5Gui/E5SingleApplication.py (4726 bytes)
> > %
> > -----
> >
> > One can get the file to experiment:
> > -----
> > % fetch http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/eric-ide/eric5/stable/5.0.0-RC1/eric5-5.0.0-RC1.tar.gz
> > -----
> >
> > Extracted files seems to be OK.

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