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From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test ca
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:36:02 -0700
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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..



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