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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:01:23 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems
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On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Unless tar is doing something like untarring to a temp directory and then
> doing a shell-api move that it doesn't wait for.  I don't know.  I'll get a
> test case together and... well, I'm sure then the problem will mysteriously
> vanish. ;-)

What about using strace or, better, gdb?  Does it even occur under strace?
As I said, WJFFM for hundreds of iterations.


Corinna

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