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ftw() failed, this shouldn’t happen

Many people reported this. Unfortunately the error message isn’t very helpful, but I’ll soon release a new version with better error reporting.
Hopefully it’ll give a clue if this is something that can be fixed or custom tree walking needs to be implemented.

Large files

One user reported this:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test2 bs=1000k count=4700

4700+0 records in

4700+0 records out

4812800000 bytes (4.8 GB) copied, 92.0489 seconds, 52.3 MB/s
$ mktorrent —announce=a test2

mktorrent 0.4 © 2007 Emil Renner Berthing
error: cannot stat test2.

Compiling on OS X

One OS X user has reported this behavior:

cc -O2 -Wall -DVERSION=“\”0.4\"" -c init.c

cc -O2 -Wall -DVERSION=“\”0.4\"" -c hash.c

cc -O2 -Wall -DVERSION=“\”0.4\"" -c output.c

In file included from output.c:25:

mktorrent.h:22: error: parse error before `off_t’

mktorrent.h:22: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union

mktorrent.h:24: error: parse error before `}’ token

output.c: In function `write_file_list’:

output.c:38: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

output.c:46: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

output.c:50: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

output.c: In function `write_metainfo’:

output.c:108: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

make: * [output.o] Error 1

It seems off_t isn’t defined on OS X.

Feature requests

An exclude flag to keep certain files out of torrents

Perhaps something like

mktorrent -a http://lala.com/announce.php -x '*~' mytorrent