Re: [Bug-cpio] cpio v2.5 checksum error

[Vernon Schryver]

> From: Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>,
>         "Vernon Schryver" <address@hidden>


> > grey_db & grey_db.hash are changing which exposes this bug in v2.5.  
>
> Could you please tell me how these files are created, so I may reproduce
> the bug on my system.

Both files are modified at random with mmap().  In addition, grey_db
occassionally has chunks added to it.  In this case, it is unlikely that
your version of cpio is seeing chunks added.
I would not be surprised if your problem is related to flock()
or fcntl() locks held on one or the other file.


Vernon Schryver    address@hidden