Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 07:59:46 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Subject: Re: Strange bug related to fstat() Message-ID: <199610280659.HAA02709@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610272250.OAA14535@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Oct 27, 96 02:50:22 pm"
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As Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Within a little background daemon, the system() command is used
> to execute a command looking something like this:
>
> system("tar cf - file1 file2 | gzip -cf | uuencode files > output");
Btw., would it work using `tar czf -' instead?
> The only other possibilities seem to be a bug in /bin/sh or the
> kernel. As you can see, I need a little hint as to how to pursue
> this one...
Try to ktrace this and look what the fstat() is getting as its file
descriptor.
--
cheers, J"org
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