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Re: [Bug-tar] This apparent 63-character remote tarfilepath limit
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Joerg Schilling |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] This apparent 63-character remote tarfilepath limit |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:37:32 +0100 |
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nail 11.2 8/15/04 |
Ed Leaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> e.g.:
> address@hidden leaver]$ tar -cvf
> ssslnxm:/home/leaver/tartest/file6789012345678901234567890123456789.tar
> tmp
> tmp/
> tmp/foo
> address@hidden leaver]$ echo $?
> 0
>
> works fine, has 63 characters in the remote tarfilepath. Add one more:
> address@hidden leaver]$ tar -cvf
> ssslnxm:/home/leaver/tartest/file67890123456789012345678901234567890.tar
> tmp
> tar:
> ssslnxm\:/home/leaver/tartest/file67890123456789012345678901234567890.tar:
> Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> address@hidden leaver]$ echo $?
This is a problem caused by the GNU implementation of the rmt protocol.
If you like to avoid this limitation, just use the rmt implementation
from star ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/
... it may be that you need to replace the rmt client implementation
in GNU tar by star's librmt in case you like to benefit from the
new RMT Protocol version 1
The new RMT Protocol version 1 is the rmt protocol extension, Sun and UCB
did agree on ~ 15 years ago. Sun already decided to replace Sun's current
implementation which has been done by UCB buy the rmt implementation from
star around April 2005.
BTW: any application that likes to avoid interoperability problems caused
by previous versions of the rmt protocol should convert to the new RMT Protocol
version 1 anyway.
Jörg
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