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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0)
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>> Actually, thinking about it, yes we extrace a lot of devices from the
>> bindist :-(

>Actually, now that *I* think of it, we do the MAKEDEV _after_ the
>bindist is extracted!

>I've just added a check so that it will be done again if you install
>the bindist multiple times.

It's too dangerous to leave special files with the wrong minors lying
around.

I hoped to fix tar, cpio and pax to at least complain about the
truncation.  How about skipping special files that can't be stored
without loss?

Bruce