signal(3) "new" signals warning

2025-07-23 Thread Valery Ushakov
Out signal(3) man page screams at the reader with emphasis: Unlike previous signal facilities, the handler func() remains installed after a signal has been delivered. This paragraph and its supposed importance is probably a bit opaque for a modern reader. It has not been relevant in ... 35

Re: pax -rw choking on 256-byte filename

2025-07-23 Thread Edgar Fuß
> So that it can atomically overwrite the destination using rename(2). OK, I thought something like that. But the destination dir didn't exist and was created by pax itself. > File a PR. bin/59547.

Re: pax -rw choking on 256-byte filename

2025-07-23 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article , Edgar Fuß wrote: >I tried to copy a tree with pax -wr -pe that included a 256-byte filename. >I got an error > pax: cannot create /.//.mInz1u >(File name too long) >Why does pax try to create the destination with a random-looking suffix? So that it can atomically overwrite the

pax -rw choking on 256-byte filename

2025-07-23 Thread Edgar Fuß
I tried to copy a tree with pax -wr -pe that included a 256-byte filename. I got an error pax: cannot create /.//.mInz1u (File name too long) Why does pax try to create the destination with a random-looking suffix?