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Run test_tarfile on a posix system as a user with a high userid such as 734380696 and test_add_dir_getmember will fail with:
ERROR: test_add_dir_getmember (test.test_tarfile.Bz2UstarReadTest.test_add_dir_getmember) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/.../cpython/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py", line 225, in test_add_dir_getmember self.add_dir_and_getmember('bar') File "/.../cpython/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py", line 234, in add_dir_and_getmember tar.add(name) File "/.../cpython/Lib/tarfile.py", line 2001, in add self.addfile(tarinfo) File "/.../cpython/Lib/tarfile.py", line 2020, in addfile buf = tarinfo.tobuf(self.format, self.encoding, self.errors) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/.../cpython/Lib/tarfile.py", line 823, in tobuf return self.create_ustar_header(info, encoding, errors) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/.../cpython/Lib/tarfile.py", line 842, in create_ustar_header return self._create_header(info, USTAR_FORMAT, encoding, errors) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/.../cpython/Lib/tarfile.py", line 954, in _create_header itn(info.get("uid", 0), 8, format), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/.../cpython/Lib/tarfile.py", line 214, in itn raise ValueError("overflow in number field") ValueError: overflow in number field