Re: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 29 13:50, Nigel Hathaway wrote: > After a bit of investigation I have narrowed down the problem. > > Firstly though, the presence of dev nodes is not for the benefit cygwin > or Windows. They are exported over NFS so that an embedded ARM-Linux > system can use the NFS export as its root fil

Re: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't top-post: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU | From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebb9 AT byu.net] ~ And please don't feed the spammers: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR | Dev nodes are OS specific. You

RE: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Nigel Hathaway
27;t know. Maybe the weirdness is more involved. -Original Message- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 February 2008 13:06 To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Nigel Hathaway Subject: Re: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to

Re: Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Eric Blake
-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).

Problem with dev nodes in tar extract

2008-02-29 Thread Nigel Hathaway
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). When I untar it under cygwin (tar-1.19-1: 1.19.90-1 hasn't made it out to the mirrors yet), it crashes pa