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From: Eric Backus <eric_backus@alum.mit.edu>
Subject:  Re: symbolic link untar issue
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:49:22 +0000 (UTC)
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Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> Most .exe magic is already inside cygwin.  In particular, CVS cygwin
> (which will become 1.7.0) has a transparent_exe option that makes this all
> even cleaner, without application specific knowledge.
> 
> But the real problem reported by this thread has nothing to do with .exe
> magic after all.  Rather, it had to do with a non-compliant implementation
> of open(O_CREAT|O_EXCL).

Ah.  OK, thanks for the update, and all your hard work.
-- 
Eric



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