X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DB8409E.2030004@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:13:18 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.39.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly References: <20110424121145.GB30696@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110426074325.GP3324@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110426152226.GA22801@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20110426155346.GA19578@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DB83C35.8040808@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFF8370C4E6D3775730F6D554" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com --------------enigFF8370C4E6D3775730F6D554 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/27/2011 10:10 AM, David Boyce wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> I think the patch should remain cygwin-only, and not go upstream. >=20 > What about native Windows builds of GNU tar such as GnuWin32? Wouldn't > they benefit from a (suitably conditionalized) patch too? No, because they don't use ctime the way that cygwin1.dll uses ctime. They probably have other hacks in their port of tar to work around lack of POSIX features that cygwin1.dll is emulating. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enigFF8370C4E6D3775730F6D554 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNuECeAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqbpkH/2svOIQdxGBXHlyCFfWbAd0n g6i7LAOM/wVtVnOabC/cJZcEAtL4dBrLHuGD3wpNIRwHkOWGcsirsKAXglRK3w7c VyLXh3RDxxasCUSm9q525UjQiAtTtOWjyOKQPlWqBheW4uogonukmh1WKlV7V5hQ 5FTH5cQVmi37nIxeqRWquE7D3uZVUqJGF/HpcRkjC78/Yr/pP+mlnxhcaovACPKF tK+CnsQPHiaXj0NHOvem4EMyZbwzZGw6oNIWsrjIk48EcsBPhu/bQeHt9Lkip490 rbp7A+lxQEZCfIVnoQHDMMJL/PG2Citkyw9upN65VSFAefujKVKsX7bDlXFz2N4= =yEuO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFF8370C4E6D3775730F6D554--