On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida@gmail.com> wrote:
Solaris tar can't unpack the tar available for download because of path size.
Interesting. Do you know if that is because of a Solaris limit on path size or because of a limit imposed by a particular file system? What file system are you using?
It is because tar from solaris doesn't handle a extension to the tar format that allows path names of unlimited size. I had to use gtar to uncompress. It did but it complained a lot of the gid_t number being (uint32_t)-1 and being out of its limits of [std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::min(), std::numeric_limits<int32_t>::max()] and returned a process return different of 0. Since it was a automated script I changed to using the zip file. It is not a limitation of the filesystem, since unzip works flawlessly.
Thanks,
--Beman
Regards, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida