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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:15:27 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem creating files on network drives with cygwin 1.5.10-3 and tar
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On Jun 11 14:02, Rick Rankin wrote:
> After upgrading to 1.5.10, I'm seem to be having a problem creating files on
> network drives using tar. For quite a while now (a couple of years, at least),
> I've been using tar to back up several directories to a network share, and had
> no problems up through version 1.5.9. However, with 1.5.10-3, I get the message
> 
> tar: /cygdrive/m/test.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> when I issue the command
> 
> tar -cf /cygdrive/m/test.tar test

WFM.  Could you send an strace output of that command?  Perhaps that
helps.

Corinna

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