[Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.17] testsuite: 12 40 41 42 failed

[Denis Excoffier]

Hello,

I use one of the latests cygwin (1.5.24-2).

1) I would prefer if the following test:

@40 (long01.at:56, long file names divisible by block size)

were said to be "expected to fail" in my case (cygwin). Indeed, it
seems that no file name can have more than (about) 224 characters. The
test uses a filename 512-character long.

2) For the other ones:

@41 (lustar01.at:27, ustar: unsplittable file name)
@42 (lustar02.at:32, ustar: unsplittable path name)

i got an error from ./genfile itself, error that i was not (until
now) been able to reproduce when i run the test by hand:

genfile: cannot open `this_is_a...prefix' (for @41)
or
genfile: cannot open `this_is_a...be/tween...prefix' (for @42)

3) For the @12, it's OK, i need to apply the patch file before.

Regards.

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