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On Dec  6 12:37, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/6/2011 4:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.9 has
> >been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.10 soon.
> >
> >Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >which should have "Release Candidate" quality.
> 
> Here's an easily reproducible problem with the 2011-12-05
> cygwin1.dll snapshot:
> 
> 1. Download cygwin-inst-20111205.tar.bz2 .
> 
> 2. Start mintty from the Cygwin Terminal shortcut.
> 
> 3. tar -C/ -xf /path/to/cygwin-inst-20111205.tar.bz2
> --exclude=usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
> 
> An hourglass appears and tar doesn't run.  I'm on W7-64 if that
> makes a difference.

Works for me.  I just tried from mintty with bash as login shell as
well as with tcsh as login shell.  I even left out the --exclude and
it worked ;)

Does that really occur reproducible on your machine, every try?


Corinna

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