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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 17:43:30 +0200
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Managed mode problem
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:09:32AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I was trying to build nn under Cygwin, and found it contains a file called
> > aux.sh, a file called aux.c and a file called aux.h; none of which Windows
> > would like, of course.
> >
> > Having Cygwin 1.5.2 installed, I thought I'd try out that spiffy new managed
> > mode, as running `tar xzvf nn-6.6.5.tar.Z' failed miserably (hung until I
> > killed Bash, tar and gz) so I put my tarball in /foo, which is mounted in
> > managed mode (see cygcheck.out for details on my system).
> >
> > That didn't change the behaviour of tar/gzip much, though, as the process
> > still seems to hang while untarring the tarball on the managed mount.
> >
> > Below are the cygcheck output, the tarball itself and the last stackdump from
> > gzip. If you need anything else, I'll be happy to provide.
> >
> > HTH
> > rlc
> 
> Ronald,
> 
> Upon re-reading your message, I realized something: to make use of managed
> mode, you have to extract *to* a directory mounted in managed mode.
which is what I'm doing - unless the managed-ness of the mount doesn't 
propagate to the subdirs of the mount (i.e. the ones I'm creating)

> IIUC, the directory where the tar file itself resides is irrelevant.
$ wtf IIUC
(nothingness is staring at me..)

> Make sure the command you give to untar the file doesn't contain the "-C"
> flag (which will actually change the output directory).
Of course it doesn't..
<snip>
> > mode, as running `tar xzvf nn-6.6.5.tar.Z' failed miserably (hung until I
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
</snip>

rlc

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