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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000508 | Other Unix Port | Bug | public | 2012-01-03 01:38 | 2021-04-09 22:05 |
| Reporter | AlexTaylor | Assigned To | psmedley | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Platform | OS/2 | OS | eComStation | OS Version | 2.1 |
| Summary | 0000508: tar (v1.26) cannot create archives | ||||
| Description | Attempting to create a tarball with the syntax below fails with tar 1.26: [C:\var]tar cvf test1.tar some-dir tar: some-dir/: Cannot savedir: Operation not supported on socket tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors The above worked as expected with v1.20. | ||||
| Additional Information | Trying the following syntax also fails, but with a different error message: [C:\var]tar cvf test2.tar some-dir/* tar: some-dir/*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors (This, too, worked with v1.20.) | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I'm thinking it's assuming the file is a remote drive due to the : in the full path (once the path is resolved). |
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yucky gnu lib code... I have partially fixed this in http://smedley.info/tar-1.26-os2-20120103.zip to the point where it at least creates a tar but still gives a warning about stat failing due to bad file number |
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bww now maintains tar |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2012-01-03 01:38 | AlexTaylor | New Issue | |
| 2012-01-03 07:03 | psmedley | Assigned To | => psmedley |
| 2012-01-03 07:03 | psmedley | Status | new => assigned |
| 2012-01-03 07:06 | psmedley | Note Added: 0002127 | |
| 2012-01-03 08:15 | psmedley | Note Added: 0002128 | |
| 2021-04-09 22:05 | psmedley | Status | assigned => closed |
| 2021-04-09 22:05 | psmedley | Resolution | open => won't fix |
| 2021-04-09 22:05 | psmedley | Note Added: 0003630 |
