Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:52:19 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:20:50AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:39:39PM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> I wonder if some process has created the file in
>> question and still has it open. Then a call to
>> create, and a call to unlink, will both fail.
>
>But the call to open is failing (the fd returned is -1),
>which is why the unlink() is executed in the first place,
>and it does *not* fail.
>
>My vote for Stephan Mueller's suggestion that the 'aux' in the
>name is causing the problem - but this still doesn't explaing why
>the unlink() claims to succeed (returning 0); the loop within tar
>should be changed to deal with this situation in any case.

No, it shouldn't.  We are not going to patch every conceivable
program to understand MS-DOS special files.

This won't be a problem with Cygwin 1.7.  If you want a fix change
to that.

cgf

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