On Jan 12 12:49, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 1/12/2021 12:15 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 12 11:55, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > > [...] > > > This appears to be a bug in fstat in 32-bit Cygwin. Here's what I'm > > > seeing > > > in gdb, using an unoptimized build of cygwin1.dll. There is a call to > > > fstatat in the tar source file gnu/fchmodat.c:87. This ultimately leads > > > to > > > a call to fstat, whose definition in syscalls.cc is the following in the > > > 32-bit case: > > > > No, wait. struct stat == struct _stat64 since Cygwin 1.5.0! > > > > With Cygwin 1.5.0, the old entry point fstat was only retained to serve > > old 32 bit applications buil.t under Cygwin 1.3.x or earlier. > > > > Consequentially, newer 32 bit apps, built with Cygwin 1.5.0 or later, > > are redirected to fstat64, see NEW_FUNCTIONS in Makefile.in. > > > > If tar is actually calling fstat, something fishy is going on. > > It's not tar that's calling fstat, it's Cygwin's fstatat at > syscalls.cc:4855. This appears to be a bug that I introduced in commit > 84252946. I'll fix it.
Oh, right, this code should call fstat64, or resolve to an fhandler and call its fstat method. > Thanks for setting me straight. Never mind, shit happens. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
