Re: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29

Gene Heskett
2007-03-12T18:28:49Z

On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote:
>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

I'd considered it, but with 32 dle entries, the whole strace output would
be terrabytes & I don't have THAT much disk. Not to mention it traces
only the parent process, so tar would be merrily marching along to its
own drummer and not traced I'm afraid.

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