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Is /bin/pax buggy in Mac OS X 10.4.7?



I'm investigating an issue related to the pax tool (/bin/pax).

I'm seeing really strange errors:

Let's say I have a file hierarchy for a package (an Installer.app package):

When I run the following command:

% sudo /bin/pax -v -w -z -x cpio -f /tmp/toto.pax.gz .

on this hierarchy, I get this in system.log:

Sep 17 16:02:35 Selene /bin/pax: open on /tmp/pax.md.625l: Cannot allocate memory
Sep 17 16:02:35 Selene /bin/pax: close on : Bad file descriptor
Sep 17 16:02:35 Selene /bin/pax: error closing files: Bad file descriptor
Sep 17 16:02:35 Selene /bin/pax: open on /tmp/pax.md.aCjr: Cannot allocate memory


and this in the terminal output:

pax: Unable to open ./IcebergAlpha/Library/Application Support/Iceberg/Projects Templates/Plug-ins/Spotlight Importer/._template.packproj to read <No such file or directory>
./IcebergAlpha/Library/Application Support/Iceberg/Projects Templates/Plug-ins/Spotlight Importer/template.packproj
pax: Read fault on ./IcebergAlpha/Library/Frameworks <Is a directory>


As a matter of fact, file "./IcebergAlpha/Library/Application Support/Iceberg/Projects Templates/Plug-ins/Spotlight Importer/._template.packproj" really does _NOT_ exist so there does not seem to be any valuable reason why pax would need to read it.

It can not be a memory issue as this computer has 5 GB of RAM and 12 GB of disk space available for the system partition.

This problem does not happen on Mac OS X 10.2.8.

Is there any known issues with pax? Has pax recently developed an allergy to AppleDouble format files?

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