On Mar 7 08:07, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding bug-tar] > > On 03/07/2011 07:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > THis looks like a tar bug, per the strace. For some reason, if the > > file is empty, tar calls futimens on file descriptor 0 (which is > > connected to /dev/tty1 in my case), while it call futimens on > > file descriptor 4 (connected to the file empty) if the file empty > > is... well, not empty. > > This is indeed multiple bug reports for the price of 1 :) > [...] > Finally, cygwin is failing with EINVAL for futimens on a pty fd. > However, I don't know if that's something that we can change, since > cygwin doesn't really maintain a notion of changeable times on ptys at > the moment.
Please take this as granted for now. Ptys/ttys are implemented using other Windows objects (events, pipes, etc) and none of them supports setting a file time. I don't know if faking the ability to set the filetime is really feasible. Maybe we should just return EPERM? 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
