Re: GNU tar 1.13 - uid_t overflow on darwin

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:40:00 +0200
> From: Axel Rau <address@hidden>
> 
> While testing gnu tar 1.13 on darwin, I see such errors:
>       /usr/local/bin/tar: uid_t value 4294967294 too large (max=16777215)
>       -rw-r--r-- 16777214/20 6670867 2002-04-24 14:32 
> Volumes/SD1B/var/log/webperfcache/access.log

What does GNU tar 1.13.25 do?  There have been a lot of portability
fixes in that area, in recent test versions.  You can get it from:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz

> Adapting uid_t to systypes.h (
>       ./sys/types.h:typedef   u_int32_t       uid_t;          /* user id */
> ) makes archives incompatible.

Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "Adapting uid_t to systypes.h".
Do you mean that you `#undef uid_t' and then `#define uid_t somethingelse'?
But that would lead to incorrect behavior.

> What would be the right approach?

Please try 1.13.25.  If it doesn't work, please generate a little tar
file bad.tar that illustrates the problem, show what "tar tvf bad.tar"
does on your platform, and enclose a copy of bad.tar, properly encoded
for email.