mt -f /dev/nrmt0 tell is failing

Tue Oct 31 11:13:00 GMT 2000

Don Sharp wrote:
>> The results of downloading the new tar and trying the following command
> sequence
>> $ tar cf /dev/nrmt0 *
> assertion "!inheap (s)" failed: file
> "/cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.1.5-1/winsup/c
> ygwin/cygheap.cc", line 251
> 0 [sig] tar 166 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> tar.exe.stackdump
>> don@TULUM2 /usr/local/bin
> $ !507
> mt -f /dev/nrmt0 tell
> At block 7184.
>> don@TULUM2 /usr/local/bin
> $ !508
> mt -f /dev/nrmt0 status
> current block : 7184 write protected : no
>> You can see that the mt tell now presents the the right answer but the
> new tar core dumps. One step forward, one step back.

That's not a problem of tar but of the current Cygwin-1.1.5 test
version. It will be fixed before the official release.
Corinna
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