tar: Child died with signal 13

[Volker Quetschke <quetschke@scytek.de>]

Hi,

recently I found a problem when I try to untar some tar.gz archives
under cygwin. The tar.gz at this link is ca. 1,5kb
   http://www.scytek.de/expat.pat.tar.gz  .
It is just one example, it is taken from OpenOffice641C.

On my Windows 2K machine, cygwin updatet a few minutes ago, I get:

Administrator@LISI ~/tartest
$ tar -tzf expat.pat.tar.gz
pat/
pat/xmlparse/
pat/xmlparse/hashtable.h.pat
pat/xmlparse/xmlparse.h.pat
pat/xmltok/
tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Administrator@LISI ~/tartest
$ la
total 6
dr-xr-xr-x    2 Administ Kein            0 Feb 26 10:02 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 Administ Kein         4096 Feb 26 10:02 ..
-r-xr-xr-x    1 Administ Kein         1435 Sep 20  2000 expat.pat.tar.gz

I get this error in both cases, with CYGWIN=ntsec tty and CYGWIN=tty.

I also get this error on Cygwin on our Windows 2K server, but there I 
can't change the environement ;-)

If I do an gunzip first, and then a tar -tf foo.tar I get no error.

I also don't get an error doing the tar -tzf on cygwin on Windows98SE
or Linux.

Only few *.tar.gz files have this problem, but some have. I have three 
more examples, but they are not so short as the one mentioned above.

Any ideas?

    Volker
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