Is /bin/pax buggy in Mac OS X 10.4.7?
Is /bin/pax buggy in Mac OS X 10.4.7?
- Subject: Is /bin/pax buggy in Mac OS X 10.4.7?
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:17:58 +0200
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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