For tar developers - problems with tar and sendmail archive.

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Thu Mar 1 08:24:00 GMT 2001


At 11:22 AM 3/1/2001, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
>The following command:
>
>     strace -o d:/temp/tar.log tar zxvf /d/mcb/download/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.3.tar.gz
>
>extracts a load of files but in the middle one of them gives the following error:
>
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/altos.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/amdahl-uts.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4
>     tar: sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/aux.m4: Cannot utime: Invalid argument
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.3.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsd4.4.m4
>     sendmail-8.11.3/cf/ostype/bsdi.m4


This is an old problem with Win32 platforms.  aux is a reserved name.  See
the email archives for a discussion of this problem and previously proposed
"solutions". 


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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