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Re: [Bug-tar] Year-2242 bug in GNU tar 1.15.1 (also, year-1969 bug)
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Year-2242 bug in GNU tar 1.15.1 (also, year-1969 bug) |
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Wed, 18 May 2005 13:04:01 +0300 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ tar -H posix -cf tar early late
> tar: value -1 out of time_t range 0..8589934591
> tar: value 8589934592 out of time_t range 0..8589934591
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
I'd say it is a year-1969 bug, since -1 clearly refers to
'1969-12-31'. Anyway, trying to reproduce it on GNU/Linux I got:
tar: Generating negative octal headers
Apart from this warning everything went smoothly.
Regards,
Sergey