Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <038201c0a26b$bf244700$275c100a@actfs.co.uk> From: "Malcolm Boekhoff" To: "Cygwin News Group" Subject: For tar developers - problems with tar and sendmail archive. Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:22:01 -0000 The following command: strace -o d:/temp/tar.log tar zxvf /d/mcb/download/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.3.tar.gz extracts a load of files but in the middle one of them gives the following error: sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/altos.m4 sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/amdahl-uts.m4 sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4 tar: sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4: Cannot utime: Invalid argument sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.3.m4 sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.4.m4 sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsdi.m4 and at the end there is this: sendmail-8.11.3/vacation/vacation.0 sendmail-8.11.3/vacation/vacation.c tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Thu Mar 1-16:16:50 / 497$ This line in the trace log might be useful if someone is maintaining tar: 203 18154912 [main] tar 282 seterrno_from_win_error: /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.1.8-2/winsup/cygwin/times.cc:492 errno 87 The context if this message is from the log: 101997 18063292 [main] tar 282 _close: 0 = close (4) 198 18063490 [main] tar 282 utime: incoming utime act 3A9E75DE 199 18063689 [main] tar 282 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: conv_to_win32_path (sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4) 175 18063864 [main] tar 282 normalize_posix_path: src sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4 170 18064034 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: cygheap->root: (null), posix: / 167 18064201 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: (/) = cwdstuff::get (0x242F284, 260, 1, 0), errno 0 171 18064372 [main] tar 282 normalize_posix_path: /sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4 = normalize_posix_path (sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4) 186 18064558 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: cygheap->root: (null), posix: / 166 18064724 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: (D:\cygwin) = cwdstuff::get (0x242F174, 260, 0, 0), errno 0 173 18064897 [main] tar 282 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4(rel), d:\cygwin\sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4(abs) 0x8(flags) = conv_to_win32_path (sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4) 88571 18153468 [main] tar 282 symlink_info::check: not a symlink 227 18153695 [main] tar 282 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check (d:\cygwin\sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4, 0x242F519) (0x8) 453 18154148 [main] tar 282 path_conv::check: GetVolumeInformation(d:\) = OK, full_path(d:\cygwin\sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4), set_has_acls(8) 561 18154709 [main] tar 282 utimes: incoming lastaccess 3A9E75DE 00000000 203 18154912 [main] tar 282 seterrno_from_win_error: /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.1.8-2/winsup/cygwin/times.cc:492 errno 87 173 18155085 [main] tar 282 geterrno_from_win_error: windows error 87 == errno 22 88397 18243482 [main] tar 282 utimes: -1 = utimes (sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4, 242FC34); (h268) 313 18243795 [main] tar 282 _write: write (2, 0x242F494, 5) 174 18243969 [main] tar 282 fhandler_console::write: 242F494, 5 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple