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Pax hangs in case big UID

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From: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13588: Pax hangs in case big UID
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:00:49 +0100

Hello Peter,

just a one question regarding that problem
Can that patch applicable?

Did you observe any problems on other platforms?

Thank you in advance

Best regards
Petr

On 01/30/2013 03:47 PM, Petr Hracek wrote:
> On 01/30/2013 02:45 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> Hi Petr,
>>
>> I have looked at this only cursory, but FWIW,
>>
>> On 2013-01-30 14:31, Petr Hracek wrote:
>>
>> *snip*
>>
>>> +AC_SUBST([AM_BIG_ID], [2097152])
>> *snip*
>>
>>> +        #Test if $user_id is greater then 2^21
>> s/then/than/
>> And please add a space after the comment hash-marks.
>>
>>> +        #if yes then failed. This is valid only for pax and gnutar 
>>> utilities
>>> +        if test $user_id -gt $AM_BIG_ID ; then
>> This should be "-ge", right? (and please zap the space before ";")
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Hello Peter,
>
> -ge is right.
>
> with id 2097151 (less by 1) all is working properly.
>
> I will remember that conventions.
>

-- 
S pozdravem / Best regards

Petr Hracek

Red Hat Czech s.r.o.
BaseOS Core Services Brno

Email: phracek <at> redhat.com
Web: www.cz.redhat.com

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