rcs 5.7 truncated one of my files

[Richard Kandarian]

At 06:09 AM 11/23/2005, Eric Blake wrote:
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>According to Max Bowsher on 11/22/2005 4:14 PM:
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> > RCS has not been updated in years.
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>Could it be that RCS is still using 32-bit offsets because it has not been
>recompiled against newer cygwin headers to turn on 64-bit offsets?  You
>can figure this out if the truncation is occuring on ,v files > 2 gig in size.
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> > Can you find a way to reproduce the truncation?
> > If you can, then it ought to be possible to find the problem.
> > If you can't, this is likely going to remain an unsolved mystery.
>
>That is entirely true - without more details, especially a simple
>testcase, very few people are motivated enough to try to help you resolve
>the issue.
>
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Who wants to have anything to do with a > 2 gig Perl script? Note the other 
clue in the preceding question. I notice that rcs has to double the @ 
characters it finds in Perl scripts.

The new file
$ ll mkbsub.ph
-rw-r--r--  1 085598 None 34319 Nov 22 16:44 mkbsub.ph

The initial release rcs file:
$ ll RCS.bak/mkbsub.ph,v
-r--r--r--  1 085598 None 32993 Nov 22 15:12 RCS.bak/mkbsub.ph,v

The rcs file with the new file checked in
$ ll RCS/mkbsub.ph,v
-r--r--r--  1 085598 None 13515 Nov 22 16:27 RCS/mkbsub.ph,v

The new file checked out
$ ll mkbsub.ph
-rw-r--r--  1 085598 None 1024 Nov 23 06:23 mkbsub.ph

The part of RCS/mkbsub.ph,v that matches the truncation *exactly* but for 
the nine doubled @ characters. That size includes a final \n which is not 
in the truncated version.
$ ll junk
-rw-rw-rw-  1 085598 None 1034 Nov 23 06:33 junk

I think the 1024 size of that penultimate file, mkbsub.ph, is very 
interesting. I hadn't noticed that before.

The truncated file matches the beginning of the second version but does not 
match the beginning of the initial revision:

$ diff -u0 junk mkbsub.ph
--- junk        2005-11-23 06:42:11.001443900 -0700
+++ mkbsub.ph   2005-11-23 06:23:29.741722500 -0700
@@ -3,7 +3,3 @@
....

And junk, the equivalent portion of the initial revision, is 53 bytes 
bigger with one @ character more.

I'll see if I can come up with any theories which might help me produce an 
example I can share.

Thanks



Richard Kandarian
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