[How embarrassing. I somehow replied to Don personally rather than to the list.]
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Don Sharp wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:27:07AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >> >I updated to "current" CVS last night around 1am EDT, and rebuilt >> >cygwin. After installing that, I saw the same behavior as before: raw >> >read worked, raw write did not (Permission denied). :-( >> >> This was really strange. Everything worked fine for me until I ejected >> my floppy. From that point on, I couldn't write to any floppy. I had to >> scroll back several times to convince myself that I wasn't >> hallucinating. >> >> Anyway, since I could eventually duplicate the problem, I could actually >> fix it. >> >> So, how about *now*, Chuck? Does it work *now*? >> >> (If it doesn't just lie...) >> >> I'm still not hearing from any volunteers with tape drives. That's >> rather disappointing since I know that the whinging will start within >> hours after I release 1.3.4, if this is actually broken. > >Sorry Chris, it's no go. Result of my session with the >cygwin1-20011005.dll snapshot is appended. "datasave" is a shell script >tarring a number of partitions in separate sections onto the tape. I >tried tarring /tmp directly to show that it wasn't my script causing the >failure. I am also adding the strace output for the last command. > >All cygwin up to date in case you are wondering. Thank you, Don! This was exactly what I needed. Your strace helped me get to the cause of the problem. I hope that this will be fixed in the next snapshot. I'm updating the snapshot as I type. I would appreciate any feedback on the current snapshot. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
