RE: tar error on device node /dev/ptmx

2006-05-25 Thread Lott, Jeremiah
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

Re: tar error on device node /dev/ptmx

2006-05-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:10:44PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Lott, Jeremiah wrote: 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 rat

Re: tar error on device node /dev/ptmx

2006-05-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:10:44PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Lott, Jeremiah wrote: >>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 o

Re: tar error on device node /dev/ptmx

2006-05-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lott, Jeremiah wrote: 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

tar error on device node /dev/ptmx

2006-05-25 Thread Lott, Jeremiah
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