Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

[Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> writes:

> If, and I have previously, I revert to a 2.6.20-ck1 patching, this does 
> not occur.  So my contention is that someplace in this recent progression 
> from 2.6.20 to 2.6.21-rc3, there is a patch which acts to change how 
> c-time is being reported to tar.  Or there is a spillage into c-times 
> when tar does its estimate scans where the output goes to /dev/null.
> Or possibly even this version of tar is doing it differently.  I just 
> looked up how to get the c-times out of ls, and they, as far as ls is 
> concerned, look sane.  But tars actions while running a 2.6.21-rcX kernel 
> certainly are not.  I do have a plain -rc2 I can try, so that will be the 
> next test.  If that also fails in this manner, I'll build a later 
> 2.6.20-2 or whatever to verify that it doesn't so suffer.

You may find 'strace' useful to track down this sort of thing (though
the output can be voluminous).

-Doug