Re: ar exception in getname?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Sat, 29 Nov 1997 08:16:41 -0500

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Arg, I spoke too soon. strace was giving me some gratuitous
> errors of the form 'ptrace: umoven: I/O error', which distracted me.
>
> Here is a relevant section of a script:
>
> Script started on Sat Nov 29 02:10:16 1997
> ~/tmp$ ar -V
> GNU ar version 2.7
> ~/tmp$ strace ar rcs new.a
> ...
> open(ptrace: umoven: I/O error
> 0, O_RDONLY) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
> ...
> Script done on Sat Nov 29 02:10:39 1997
>
> 'new.a' is a file that doesn't already exist. The first argument to
> 'open' is 0.
>
> This bug has been in 'ar' for quite a while.

Hi Michael,

My 'ar' may very well be old, so I'll check and upgrade. I also see
those "umoven" errors frequently from strace -- does it indicate a bad
address in the call? Usually it happens with the call I'm most
interested in seeing, of course.

Regards,
Bill