Wed, Aug 07, 2019 12:15:25 PM I am able to run "tar ft somefile.tar" successfully on a Linux machine, same tar version (1.29.) This version hangs up the terminal, does not respond to Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Z, and terminates with an illegal instruction to the screen, not reflected in the strace output. Invocation: ------------------------------------------- strace -o tartrace01 tar ft sometarfile.tar ------------------------------------------- --- Process 77604 created --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll at 77040000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 76d60000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 747b0000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 76d60000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 76c60000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll at 747b0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll at 748c0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sysfer.dll at 740d0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll at 76aa0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcrt.dll at 75630000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll at 74750000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rpcrt4.dll at 74a80000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sspicli.dll at 746f0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptbase.dll at 746e0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll at 61000000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll at 2b5e0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-8.dll at 1e120000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll at 6ea20000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\apphelp.dll at 73f10000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\AppPatch\AcLayers.dll at 742b0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\user32.dll at 75380000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\gdi32.dll at 752f0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\lpk.dll at 756e0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\usp10.dll at 769f0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shell32.dll at 758b0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\shlwapi.dll at 76b90000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ole32.dll at 754c0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\oleaut32.dll at 75810000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\userenv.dll at 76500000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\profapi.dll at 76590000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\winspool.drv at 69560000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\mpr.dll at 73ee0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\psapi.dll at 76c50000 2 2 [main] tar (77604) ********************************************** 126 128 [main] tar (77604) Program name: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe (windows pid 77604) 52 180 [main] tar (77604) OS version: Windows NT-6.1 48 228 [main] tar (77604) ********************************************** --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll at 00350000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 00350000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\advapi32.dll at 00350000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 00350000 1327 1555 [main] tar (77604) sigprocmask: 0 = sigprocmask (0, 0x0, 0x6129778C) 476 2031 [main] tar (77604) open_shared: name shared.5, n 5, shared 0x60FF0000 (wanted 0x60FF0000), h 0xCC, *m 6 66 2097 [main] tar (77604) user_heap_info::init: heap base 0x80000000, heap top 0x80000000, heap size 0x18000000 (402653184) 67 2164 [main] tar (77604) open_shared: name S-1-5-21-2052111302-448539723-1801674531-969217.1, n 1, shared 0x60FE0000 (wanted 0x60FE0000), h 0xC8, *m 6 44 2208 [main] tar (77604) user_info::create: opening user shared for 'S-1-5-21-2052111302-448539723-1801674531-969217' at 0x60FE0000 27 2235 [main] tar (77604) user_info::create: user shared version AB1FCCE8 51 2286 [main] tar (77604) fhandler_pipe::create: name \\.\pipe\cygwin-c5e39b7a9d22bafb-77604-sigwait, size 5412, mode PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE 49 2335 [main] tar (77604) fhandler_pipe::create: pipe read handle 0xE0 22 2357 [main] tar (77604) fhandler_pipe::create: CreateFile: name \\.\pipe\cygwin-c5e39b7a9d22bafb-77604-sigwait 44 2401 [main] tar (77604) fhandler_pipe::create: pipe write handle 0xE4 27 2428 [main] tar (77604) dll_crt0_0: finished dll_crt0_0 initialization --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imm32.dll at 76520000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 76520000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\imm32.dll at 76520000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msctf.dll at 767e0000 --- Process 77604 unloaded DLL at 767e0000 --- Process 77604 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msctf.dll at 767e0000 --- Process 77604, exception c000001d at 7411eca6 --- Process 77604 exited with status 0xc000001d -------------------- tar --version output -------------------- tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. ------------------- cygcheck tar output ------------------- Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-RtlSupport-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\ntdll.dll C:\windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Heap-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-IO-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ThreadPool-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-NamedPipe-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-String-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Debug-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ErrorHandling-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Fibers-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Util-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Profile-L1-1-0.dll C:\windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Security-Base-L1-1-0.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-8.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll