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Date: | Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:26:06 +0200 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly |
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On Jun 30 11:05, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/30/2011 9:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 30 14:43, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > >>Dear all, > >> > >>just joining after being hit by an obviously known issue: > >> > >>Running tar (in my case to extract openssl-0.9.8r.tar.gz) results in > >>symbolic links being randomly substituted by zero length mode 0 files as > >>described in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00299.html. > >> > >>For me this happens on both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. > >> > >>The interesting (new?) tidbit: > >> > >>In sheer desparation I downgraded from cygwin1.dll/1.7.9.1 to > >>cygwin1.ddl/1.7.8.1 via setup.exe and the issue seems to be gone. > >> > >>As this is the only change I made: Is it possible that the problem is > >>not an issue with tar (as discussed on the mailing list) but in fact a > >>regression in cygwin1.dll? > > > >I never saw this happen. Therefore, somebody actually seeing this > >problem has to debug it. The least I need is an strace. > > I'm not sure it needs further debugging. The patch to tar given in > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00385.html > > solves the problem. Eric said (in the next message) that he will > apply this to the next release of tar. In the meantime, it's easy > to download the tar source, apply the patch, and rebuild. Thanks for the reminder. That's one problem less to worry about :} Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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