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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:13:36 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@cygnus.com>
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Subject: Re: mt -f /dev/nrmt0 tell is failing
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Don Sharp wrote:
> 
> The results of downloading the new tar and trying the following command
> sequence
> 
> $ tar cf /dev/nrmt0 *
> assertion "!inheap (s)" failed: file
> "/cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.1.5-1/winsup/c
> ygwin/cygheap.cc", line 251
>       0 [sig] tar 166 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> tar.exe.stackdump
> 
> don@TULUM2 /usr/local/bin
> $ !507
> mt -f /dev/nrmt0 tell
> At block 7184.
> 
> don@TULUM2 /usr/local/bin
> $ !508
> mt -f /dev/nrmt0 status
> current block    :     7184             write protected  :       no
> 
> You can see that the mt tell now presents the the right answer but the
> new tar core dumps. One step forward, one step back.

That's not a problem of tar but of the current Cygwin-1.1.5 test
version. It will be fixed before the official release.

Corinna

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