On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 04:11:24PM -0700, Marc Espie wrote: ... >> Log message: >> don't whine about octal numbers > 2^32. They're not portable, but >> they work on all OpenBSD platforms. >> >> Shuts up warning noticed by naddy@ > > Turns out this is probably a side-effect of guenther's work on time_t > within tar. > > I expect we have some source distfile (I don't know which one yet) with > dates set into the future, sufficiently far enough that they're >2^32...
It could also be a file with a pre-1970 timestamp, which had quirky (i.e., unportable) representation in the tar format before, and an ever quirkier and less-portable representation now. I had started to change pax/tar to clamp those to (time_t)0 after miod pointed this out, but vacation and illness intervened. Maybe once I can breath and think straight I'll be able to get back to that... Philip
