[Bug-tar] CHAR_BIT undefined in lib/strerror.c (tar-1.19)

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Villeneuve
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tar extract errors occurring rarely but with same symptoms

2021-06-05 Thread Daniel Villeneuve
t;, 0x7ffc9b136f50, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) The archives were created using options to guarantee reproducible results: tar --sort=name --mtime=2001-01-01T00:00 -I 'gzip -n' -c -f p.tar.gz file1  file2 file3 dir1 dir2 dir3 where file? and dir? all come from the same level of a given (sub)-directory,  with an ordering that favors fast extraction of key files. I had the same problem with tar 1.32. I could recompile tar with local modifications, or try other things if  suggested. Regards, -- Daniel Villeneuve

Re: tar extract errors occurring rarely but with same symptoms

2021-06-05 Thread Daniel Villeneuve
On 6/5/21 4:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 6/5/21 9:39 AM, Daniel Villeneuve wrote: And when a problem like the above occurs, our process tries it again and it  usually succeeds (that is, I've never witnessed two successive failures). When you say "it usually succeeds", do yo

Re: tar extract errors occurring rarely but with same symptoms

2021-06-06 Thread Daniel Villeneuve
On 6/6/21 1:39 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 6/5/21 10:23 PM, Daniel Villeneuve wrote: openat(AT_FDCWD, "XX_config/static/users", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 000) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|000, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 close(4)    = 0 OK, so at this point