X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4475F67E.1080707@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:25:02 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar error on device node /dev/ptmx References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D053B110F@exchange.timesys.com> <4475F324.3000609@cygwin.com> <20060525182021.GA7509@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20060525182021.GA7509@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:10:44PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Lott, Jeremiah wrote: >>> I'm having a problem extracting a tar that contains the device node >>> /dev/ptmx (character device 5,2). Tar creates the file, then segfaults. >>> I originally detected this with a rather large tar created on a linux >>> machine. However, this can be re-produced entirely on cygwin as in the >>> following transcript. Other device nodes seem to work OK. >> Ask your cube-mate Chris about it. ;-) > > I told Jeremiah to send email here. It's hard to shout across a 500 > mile cube. Yes, my obscure reference really only served to confuse most list readers. But I just couldn't resist. ;-) Thanks for clarifying the situation for everyone though. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/