Re: Problems with gzipped tarballs on -current

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:21:39PM -0700, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> 
> 
> > I have -current running on an Amiga from 14-December-2009 and on an m68k
> > Mac, also from 14-December-2009. Strangely, whenever I try to untargzip
> > something without pipes I get this:
> >
> > lilith: {88} tar xzpf libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz
> > gzip: error writing to output: No such file or directory
> > tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
> > tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
> >
> > If I ungzip, then untar, everything works properly. Is anyone else seeing
> > this?
> 
>   Not since 15-December-2009.

Wasn't there a pipe bug recently, or recently fixed? I'm not sure - the
one I quickly found was caused by an exhausted file descriptor table.

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