Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:03:14 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@ref.tfs.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0) Message-ID: <199506070803.SAA07793@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Actually, thinking about it, yes we extrace a lot of devices from the >> bindist :-( >Actually, now that *I* think of it, we do the MAKEDEV _after_ the >bindist is extracted! >I've just added a check so that it will be done again if you install >the bindist multiple times. It's too dangerous to leave special files with the wrong minors lying around. I hoped to fix tar, cpio and pax to at least complain about the truncation. How about skipping special files that can't be stored without loss? Bruce
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