I'm having a problem extracting a tar that contains the device node
/dev/ptmx (character device 5,2). Tar creates the file, then segfaults.
I originally detected this with a rather large tar created on a linux
machine. However, this can be re-produced entirely on cygwin as in the
following transcript. Other device nodes seem to work OK.
Jeremiah Lott
TimeSys Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ mknod ./ptmx c 5 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ tar czf test.tgz ./ptmx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ tar xzf test.tgz
13 [main] tar 440 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping
state (probably corrupted stack)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test
$ cygcheck -c tar cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.5.19-4 OK
tar 1.15.90-1 OK
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