From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 22:40:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC99F16A4EF for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 22:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A993E13C457 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 22:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JIR003EOTJ24A50@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 May 2007 15:40:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JIR001K7TJ2EED0@pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 May 2007 15:40:15 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JIR006KDTJ1KIS0@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 May 2007 15:40:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 16061 invoked from network); Mon, 28 May 2007 21:39:56 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Mon, 28 May 2007 21:39:56 +0000 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:39:55 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <005d01c7a169$b48c7390$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> To: Steven Hartland Message-id: <465B4C2B.6060104@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 References: <005d01c7a169$b48c7390$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070511) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in BSD tar? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 22:40:27 -0000 Steven Hartland wrote: > When compressing files with specific filenames it appears that BSD > tar is creating invalid archives which when handed to gnutar to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > expand it errors with the following: > [log] > tar -xvzf test.tar.gz > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink' > cantiquedeno\353l1_loop.wav > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > [/log] This looks like fairly typical symptoms of gnutar being broken. What makes you think that the archive created by BSD tar was invalid? Colin Percival