Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
> If the size was 64GB or greater, then we actually overflowed
> digits into the mtime field, meaning our value was was
was was
> effectively right-shifted by those lost octal digits. And
> this patch is again a strict improvement over that.
> diff --git a/archive-tar.c b/archive-tar.c
> index cb99df2..274bdfa 100644
> --- a/archive-tar.c
> +++ b/archive-tar.c
> @@ -137,6 +137,20 @@ static void strbuf_append_ext_header(struct strbuf *sb,
> const char *keyword,
> strbuf_addch(sb, '\n');
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Like strbuf_append_ext_header, but for numeric values.
> + */
> +static void strbuf_append_ext_header_uint(struct strbuf *sb,
> + const char *keyword,
> + uintmax_t value)
> +{
> + char buf[40]; /* big enough for 2^128 in decimal, plus NUL */
> + int len;
> +
> + len = xsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%"PRIuMAX, value);
> + strbuf_append_ext_header(sb, keyword, buf, len);
> +}
> +
> static unsigned int ustar_header_chksum(const struct ustar_header *header)
> {
> const unsigned char *p = (const unsigned char *)header;
> @@ -208,7 +222,7 @@ static int write_tar_entry(struct archiver_args *args,
> struct ustar_header header;
> struct strbuf ext_header = STRBUF_INIT;
> unsigned int old_mode = mode;
> - unsigned long size;
> + unsigned long size, size_in_header;
> void *buffer;
> int err = 0;
>
> @@ -267,7 +281,13 @@ static int write_tar_entry(struct archiver_args *args,
> memcpy(header.linkname, buffer, size);
> }
>
> - prepare_header(args, &header, mode, size);
> + size_in_header = size;
> + if (S_ISREG(mode) && size > 077777777777UL) {
Want a symbolic constant with a comment that says why you have
eleven 7's?
> + size_in_header = 0;
> + strbuf_append_ext_header_uint(&ext_header, "size", size);
> + }
> +
> + prepare_header(args, &header, mode, size_in_header);
The change itself makes sense.
Thanks.
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