Re: [PATCH] new version of singlecopy pipe

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 19:19:19 EST

On 05.12 J . A . Magallon wrote:
>
> On 05.11 Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >
> > Please test it.
> > The kernel space part should be ok, but I know that the
> > patch can cause deadlocks with buggy user space apps.
> >
>
> I tried your patch on 2.4.4-ac8, and something strange happens.
> Untarring linux-2.4.4 takes a little time, disk light flashes,
> but no files appear on the disk (just 'Makefile', as you will see below).
> Doing a separate gunzip - tar xf works fine:
>

Quoting myself, I have tried with other tar.gz files and only the first
file gets extracted.
With a tar.bz2 file, I get:

werewolf:~/io> gtar jxf src.tar.bz2
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Skipping to next header
gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

but all files seem to be there. 

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J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac8 #1 SMP Sat May 12 01:16:37 CEST 2001 i686

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