Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:37:29 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test case Message-ID: <20030717003729.GA6219@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3D5E0EA708C5DD44B7575859D366728C2DC210@svr-orw-exc-02.wv.mentorg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D5E0EA708C5DD44B7575859D366728C2DC210@svr-orw-exc-02.wv.mentorg.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:12:18PM -0700, Biederman, Steve wrote: >tar 1.13.25 runs forever, consuming CPU time, and produces nothing, on >the following test case: > >Go to an empty directory. Extract the attached with "tar -xzf >hang.tgz". Test that tar works on the extracted tree by doing >something like "tar -cf /temp/test.tar ." > >Now, "mv ATA_INTERFAC ATA_INTERFACE" and then try the tar again: "tar >-cf /temp/test.tar ." and tar will run forever, consuming CPU time, and >leaving /temp/test.tar at 0 bytes. (At least tar 1.13.25 does, on my >Win 2000 box.) Works fine here. Sorry. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/