For tar developers - problems with tar and sendmail archive.

["Malcolm Boekhoff" <Malcolm dot Boekhoff at actfs dot co dot uk>]

The following command:

    strace -o d:/temp/tar.log tar zxvf /d/mcb/download/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.3.tar.gz

extracts a load of files but in the middle one of them gives the following error:

    sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/altos.m4
    sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/amdahl-uts.m4
    sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4
    tar: sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4: Cannot utime: Invalid argument
    sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.3.m4
    sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.4.m4
    sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsdi.m4

and at the end there is this:

    sendmail-8.11.3/vacation/vacation.0
    sendmail-8.11.3/vacation/vacation.c
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
    Thu Mar  1-16:16:50 / 497$

This line in the trace log might be useful if someone is maintaining tar:

    203 18154912 [main] tar 282 seterrno_from_win_error: /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.1.8-2/winsup/cygwin/times.cc:492 errno 87

The context if this message is from the log:

101997 18063292 [main] tar 282 _close: 0 = close (4)
  198 18063490 [main] tar 282 utime: incoming utime act 3A9E75DE
  199 18063689 [main] tar 282 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: conv_to_win32_path (sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4)
  175 18063864 [main] tar 282 normalize_posix_path: src sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4
  170 18064034 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: cygheap->root: (null), posix: /
  167 18064201 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: (/) = cwdstuff::get (0x242F284, 260, 1, 0), errno 0
  171 18064372 [main] tar 282 normalize_posix_path: /sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4 = normalize_posix_path
(sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4)
  186 18064558 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: cygheap->root: (null), posix: /
  166 18064724 [main] tar 282 cwdstuff::get: (D:\cygwin) = cwdstuff::get (0x242F174, 260, 0, 0), errno 0
  173 18064897 [main] tar 282 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4(rel),
d:\cygwin\sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4(abs) 0x8(flags) = conv_to_win32_path (sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4)
88571 18153468 [main] tar 282 symlink_info::check: not a symlink
  227 18153695 [main] tar 282 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check (d:\cygwin\sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4, 0x242F519) (0x8)
  453 18154148 [main] tar 282 path_conv::check: GetVolumeInformation(d:\) = OK,
full_path(d:\cygwin\sendmail-8.11.3\cf\ostype\aux.m4), set_has_acls(8)
  561 18154709 [main] tar 282 utimes: incoming lastaccess 3A9E75DE 00000000
  203 18154912 [main] tar 282 seterrno_from_win_error: /cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.1.8-2/winsup/cygwin/times.cc:492 errno 87
  173 18155085 [main] tar 282 geterrno_from_win_error: windows error 87 == errno 22
88397 18243482 [main] tar 282 utimes: -1 = utimes (sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4, 242FC34); (h268)
  313 18243795 [main] tar 282 _write: write (2, 0x242F494, 5)
  174 18243969 [main] tar 282 fhandler_console::write: 242F494, 5




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