tar 1.5.error: lone zero block

I'm unpacking a tar that contains a linux root filesystem on my cygwin machine. I get a complaint about a "lone zero block" and the tar is not completely extracted. This is with tar 1.15.91-1, if I roll back to 1.15.1-4, then the problem goes away. Appears to be a bug. The same thing happened f

RE: tar error on device node /dev/ptmx

Larry Hall wrote: > More seriously, did you try the same with a snapshot? Now I did. I installed the 5/24 snapshot, same result. Jeremiah Lott TimeSys Corporation -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

tar error on device node /dev/ptmx

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 transc