Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:24:29 +0100
From:	Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
X-Mailer:	The Bat! (v1.53d) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091
Reply-To:	Pavel Tsekov <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Organization:	Syntrex, Inc.
X-Priority:	3 (Normal)
Message-ID:	<15020076127.20020221152429@syntrex.com>
To:	Peter DOT Frey AT haufe DOT de
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: tar 1.13.19-1: extraction of a .tar.gz file with -xvz ends with "tar: Archive value 4178575360 is out of off_t range 0..2147483647"
In-Reply-To:	<08231599A3E6E64CAE8FA66619243E4002FAA743@vg100cl1>
References:	<08231599A3E6E64CAE8FA66619243E4002FAA743 AT vg100cl1>
MIME-Version:	1.0

Hello Peter,

Thursday, February 21, 2002, 3:06:58 PM, you wrote:

PFhd> Return-Path: <cygwin-return-45351-ptsekov=syntrex DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
PFhd> Delivered-To: ptsekov AT mail DOT syntrex DOT com
PFhd> Received: (qmail 26332 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2002 15:12:28 -0000
PFhd> Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com
PFhd> Received: (qmail 26323 invoked by uid 8); 21 Feb 2002 15:12:28 -0000
PFhd> Received: from sources.redhat.com (209.249.29.67)
PFhd>         by mail.syntrex.com with SMTP id smtpdnEigvq; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:12:27 EST
PFhd> Received: (qmail 28453 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2002 14:07:27 -0000
PFhd> Hi,

PFhd> I got a gzipped tar file that was created on a Solaris machine that contains
PFhd> the backup of a larger database.
PFhd> The file contains an item that is around 4 GBytes in size, the total size of

[ snip ]

PFhd> Or is it due to the lack of largefile support in the 1.3.6 version of
PFhd> cygwin?

Right - cygwin doesnt support files larger than 2 gigs.


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -