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Re: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:06:50PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:

[...]

>   It's certainly a bug that unlink() returns 0 on a file that doesn't exist,
> instead of indicating ENOENT.  However 1.5 series is dead, there aren't going
> to be any further updates to it.  You can always get the sources and patch
> yourself a custom DLL, if for some reason upgrading to 1.7 isn't an option for
> you, but that's about the limit of your options I'm afraid.

I had no idea I was using a dead branch of Cygwin.
If all efforts go into 1.7 and it's been addressed there, that's great.

>     cheers,
>       DaveK

Thanks for the helpful replies everybody.

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