-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Nigel Hathaway on 2/29/2008 4:36 AM: | I have created a gzipped compressed tar archive on Linux of an embedded | Linux file system. It was compressed under Linux using fakeroot (so that | everything is owned as root and dev nodes work).
Dev nodes are OS specific. You will probably never get this to work, because cygwin's notions of which major device numbers map to which devices, while modeled after Linux, is not identical to Linux. You are trying to do something that is inherently non-portable. | There error message I get is: | | 171 [main] tar 7900 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping | state (probably corrupted stack) | | Segmentation fault (core dumped) Obviously, it would be nicer if we didn't crash the cygwin syscall, but this is not going to be my highest priority bug investigation. Strace may be helpful to you to find out what is going on just before the crash. And a simple, self-contained test case written in C will make it easier for the cygwin development team to look into this, if it is really that important to you (hint - pointing to tar's source code is not simple enough for honing in on the cause of the crash). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin tar maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHyANS84KuGfSFAYARAtw4AJ9wpPzxaJX8lKuFrU+mWIK7ZxsUZgCgmzP0 dgeWrvdwmq2m1nUTUTa3768= =Jso7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
