X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:56:08 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar Message-ID: <20091127085608.GW29173@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5a05e0e60911261052w2e60586cxe7a90d02b4cf6e0f@mail.gmail.com> <20091126213025.GA26443@win.tue.nl> <4B0EF59B.90609@cs.umass.edu> <20091127002050.GA27305@win.tue.nl> <20091127005219.GE18148@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091127005219.GE18148@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Nov 26 19:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:20:50AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:39:39PM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: > >> I wonder if some process has created the file in > >> question and still has it open. Then a call to > >> create, and a call to unlink, will both fail. > > > >But the call to open is failing (the fd returned is -1), > >which is why the unlink() is executed in the first place, > >and it does *not* fail. > > > >My vote for Stephan Mueller's suggestion that the 'aux' in the > >name is causing the problem - but this still doesn't explaing why > >the unlink() claims to succeed (returning 0); the loop within tar > >should be changed to deal with this situation in any case. > > No, it shouldn't. We are not going to patch every conceivable > program to understand MS-DOS special files. > > This won't be a problem with Cygwin 1.7. If you want a fix change > to that. Just as a sidenote a pointer to the new User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-dosdevices Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple