Hi, recently I found a problem when I try to untar some tar.gz archives under cygwin. The tar.gz at this link is ca. 1,5kb http://www.scytek.de/expat.pat.tar.gz . It is just one example, it is taken from OpenOffice641C.
On my Windows 2K machine, cygwin updatet a few minutes ago, I get: Administrator@LISI ~/tartest $ tar -tzf expat.pat.tar.gz pat/ pat/xmlparse/ pat/xmlparse/hashtable.h.pat pat/xmlparse/xmlparse.h.pat pat/xmltok/ tar: Child died with signal 13 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Administrator@LISI ~/tartest $ la total 6 dr-xr-xr-x 2 Administ Kein 0 Feb 26 10:02 . drwxr-xr-x 6 Administ Kein 4096 Feb 26 10:02 .. -r-xr-xr-x 1 Administ Kein 1435 Sep 20 2000 expat.pat.tar.gz I get this error in both cases, with CYGWIN=ntsec tty and CYGWIN=tty. I also get this error on Cygwin on our Windows 2K server, but there I can't change the environement ;-) If I do an gunzip first, and then a tar -tf foo.tar I get no error. I also don't get an error doing the tar -tzf on cygwin on Windows98SE or Linux. Only few *.tar.gz files have this problem, but some have. I have three more examples, but they are not so short as the one mentioned above. Any ideas? Volker -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/