Re: tar bug?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:25:00PM -0500, Patrick Alken wrote:
> 
>     if (xstrtoul (optarg, (char **) 0, 10, &u, "") != LONG_MAX)
>       USAGE_ERROR ((0, 0, _("Invalid tape length")));

thank you very much for the bug report.  It seems that the correct fix
is to use LONGINT_OK instead of LONG_MAX.

This bug is already fixed in current development release
( ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz ).

Regards,
        Stepan Kasal