bug#46815: cp integer overflow in progress (time remaining)

[Paul Eggert]

On 2/27/21 7:35 AM, Ronald Knol wrote:
> This is "cp -argu <sourcedir> <destdir>". The source tree contains more
> than 2TiB worth of data.
>
> I believe the issue is in src/copy.c where (on line 355) an INT is used to
> store "cur_size".
>
>      int cur_size = g_iTotalWritten + *total_n_read / 1024;

GNU coreutils 'cp' lacks a 'g' option, and doesn't have the line number 
you mentioned. It sounds like you're dealing with a bug in a modified 
version of 'cp', which means you should direct your bug report to 
whoever made that modification.