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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:30:45 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: REALLY need help prior to 1.3.4 release
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[How embarrassing.  I somehow replied to Don personally rather than to
the list.]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Don Sharp wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> >I updated to "current" CVS last night around 1am EDT, and rebuilt
>> >cygwin.  After installing that, I saw the same behavior as before: raw
>> >read worked, raw write did not (Permission denied).  :-(
>> 
>> This was really strange.  Everything worked fine for me until I ejected
>> my floppy.  From that point on, I couldn't write to any floppy.  I had to
>> scroll back several times to convince myself that I wasn't
>> hallucinating.
>> 
>> Anyway, since I could eventually duplicate the problem, I could actually
>> fix it.
>> 
>> So, how about *now*, Chuck?  Does it work *now*?
>> 
>> (If it doesn't just lie...)
>> 
>> I'm still not hearing from any volunteers with tape drives.  That's
>> rather disappointing since I know that the whinging will start within
>> hours after I release 1.3.4, if this is actually broken.
>
>Sorry Chris, it's no go. Result of my session with the
>cygwin1-20011005.dll snapshot is appended. "datasave" is a shell script
>tarring a number of partitions in separate sections onto the tape. I
>tried tarring /tmp directly to show that it wasn't my script causing the
>failure. I am also adding the strace output for the last command.
>
>All cygwin up to date in case you are wondering.

Thank you, Don!  This was exactly what I needed.  Your strace helped me get
to the cause of the problem.  I hope that this will be fixed in the next
snapshot.  I'm updating the snapshot as I type.

I would appreciate any feedback on the current snapshot.

cgf

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