Re: [Bug-tar] Bug report

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:39:24 +0100, Branimir Buljan <address@hidden> said:

  BB> I got some nasty bug with tar archiver:

  BB>    I'm using it with VisualBuild (http://www.kinok.com) for backup of
  BB> my SourceSafe database. As there a lot of files in it, tar is
  BB> obvious choice. I had about ten databases I want to backup every
  BB> day and I'm using windows scheduler to start VisualBuild script.
  BB> And always, in the middle of the night, tar returns an error code
  BB> while processing one of the databases (always the same one, but not on
  BB> the same file). And that databases is the not the first one processed.
  BB> I have this script running without problems for a month or so, and this
  BB> started to happen ten about days ago.
  BB>    But! When I start the script by myself (without scheduler) I cannot
  BB> force it to crash; it always archives all databases successfully.

  BB> This is how the tar was invoked from the script:
  BB> "c:\Program Files\Bin\tar" -cvf "Envox 6.1.tar" "Envox 6.1"

  BB> And this is output (two examples):
  BB> ====================================================================
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/v/vjnfaaaa.a
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/v/vjngaaaa
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/v/vjngaaaa.a
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/v/vjnhaaaa
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/v/vjnhaaaa.a
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/v/vjoaaaaa

  BB> Process completed with exit code -1073741510
  BB> 04.11.2004 23:00:19: Step 'Envox 6.1' failed
  BB> 04.11.2004 23:00:19: Build canceled by user.
  BB> ====================================================================

  BB> ====================================================================
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmfaaaa
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmfaaaa.a
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmgaaaa
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmgaaaa.a
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmhaaaa
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbmhaaaa.a
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbncaaaa
  BB> Envox 6.1/data/k/kbncaaaa.a

  BB> Process completed with exit code -1073741510
  BB> 09.11.2004 01:59:02: Step 'Envox 6.1' failed
  BB> 09.11.2004 01:59:02: Build canceled by user.
  BB> ====================================================================

Possibly some other process is accessing the files and hence locking tar out?
E.g. an overnight build job.

FWIW, the error code -1073741510 in Windows usually occurs when CTRL+C is
pressed.

__Martin