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Re: For tar developers - problems with tar and sendmail archive.
- To: "Malcolm Boekhoff" <Malcolm dot Boekhoff at actfs dot co dot uk>, "Cygwin News Group" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: For tar developers - problems with tar and sendmail archive.
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:19:19 -0500
At 11:22 AM 3/1/2001, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
>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
This is an old problem with Win32 platforms. aux is a reserved name. See
the email archives for a discussion of this problem and previously proposed
"solutions".
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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