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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test ca se Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:36:02 -0700 Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <3D5E0EA708C5DD44B7575859D366728C2DC215@svr-orw-exc-02.wv.mentorg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (Compact) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3D5E0EA708C5DD44B7575859D366728C2DC215@svr-orw-exc-02.wv.mentorg.com> Biederman, Steve wrote: > Any suggestions how I can proceed to debug why tar acts the way it does for me and > not for you? Try using "strace" to see what it's doing in terms of syscalls.. Just say "strace tar ....", tee the output to some log file, and see what it's doing during the busy loop.. -- 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/