On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:01:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > @@ -267,7 +281,13 @@ static int write_tar_entry(struct archiver_args *args,
> > memcpy(header.linkname, buffer, size);
> > }
> >
> > - prepare_header(args, &header, mode, size);
> > + size_in_header = size;
> > + if (S_ISREG(mode) && size > 077777777777UL) {
>
> Want a symbolic constant with a comment that says why you have
> eleven 7's?
I tried instead to make sure we only mention it once to avoid a symbolic
constant (even though the same constant appears in the next patch, too,
it would be a mistake to give them the same name; they just happen to be
the same size).
So if anything, I would put a comment here, explaining that ustar cannot
handle anything larger than this, and POSIX mandates it (but I didn't
because the commit message already goes into much more detail).
-Peff
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