From: Peter <sw...@ho...> - 2006-01-05 19:09:45
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:27:19 +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:54:23 -0500, Peter wrote: > >> When extracting from an archive, if a file inside is > 2G, the >> extraction aborts and no files after the large file are extracted. The >> large file stops at 2G. A similar issue existed with avfs where a needed >> variable for size was defined as long instead of long long. Probably a >> similar issue here. >> >> The size of the archive is not the problem. Just the contents in it. >> >> For the time being, tar -x[jz] must be used. > > That's odd. Archive doesn't know anything about the contents of the > archive. It would make sense if it failed for a *total* archive size over > 2 Gb (that would suggest Python had been compiled without large file > suppport). > > To check, try: > > $ strace python -c 'file("LOOKHERE")' |& grep LOOKHERE open("LOOKHERE", > O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT > > (replace |& with your shell's pipe-including-stderr operator) I could not get your command to work. I _did_ try this and here is a result...Maybe not _the_ result, but a start. Let me know what else to check... peter@mars ~ $ strace python -c 'file("LOOKHERE")' 2>&1 | grep 'LOOKHERE' execve("/usr/bin/python", ["python", "-c", "file(\"LOOKHERE\")"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0 open("LOOKHERE", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "[Errno 2] No such file or direct"..., 47[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'LOOKHERE') = 47 Remember though, the error was NOT in creating the file. I used Archive to create the tgz archive. It was in extracting the file. FWIW, file-roller also crapped out at 2GB reading the archive. Perhaps there is a python module used to read an archive? If so, the problem lays there. -- Do not reply to this email address. It is a spam trap and not monitored. If you wish to contact me, please use pete4abw at comcast dot net. |