On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 09:26 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 02/21/13 05:37, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > Paul, what do you think?
>
> Sorry, I've lost context. Is there a test case illustrating
> the bug that this fixes?
Just prepare sparse file of effective size > 8GB and try to create --posix
tarbal
On 02/21/13 01:53, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> - gcc warns for so called "uninitilized varaiables" and other compilers
> rightfully for the same code complain about useless code after you
> added the "initialization" gcc asked for.
We avoid this problem Coreutils, Tar, etc. by putti
On 02/21/13 05:37, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Paul, what do you think?
Sorry, I've lost context. Is there a test case illustrating
the bug that this fixes?
>> We should overwrite the size when realsize has not been specified, not
>> just when our size exceeds what's in st_size.
>
> Attached another attempt.
Paul, what do you think?
Thanks, Pavel
Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 11:30 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> >> Developers are assumed to have up-to-date systems where -Werror is
> >> appropriate.
> >
> > Frankly, I cannot imagine a situation where treaing a warning as an
> > error can be appropriate. That's why I
