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 tarball (with -S). Then try to list the archive - it will fail. Pavel