From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 20:19:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 20:19:42 -0400 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:1246 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 20:19:26 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 02:19:19 +0200 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: "J . A . Magallon" Cc: Manfred Spraul , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] new version of singlecopy pipe Message-ID: <20010512021919.C1054@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <3AFC36BA.B71FC470@colorfullife.com> <20010512020742.A1054@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <20010512020742.A1054@werewolf.able.es>; from jamagallon@able.es on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 02:07:42 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Linux Mandrake release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac8 #1 SMP Sat May 12 01:16:37 CEST 2001 i686