X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DE17556.70302@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 18:21:10 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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: <4DB83C35.8040808@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 4/27/2011 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/27/2011 09:50 AM, Dan Grayson wrote: >> Here is a patch to tar that fixes the problem by using mtime instead of ctime. >> Yes, it's not a problem with cygwin or tar, but I see no way for users to >> figure out, under Windows, which processes are changing the status of their >> files. > > Thanks for the investigation and patch. mtime is easy to spoof, but > this seems like a reasonable patch to avoid the worst of the BLODA > issues. I'll probably apply it and push out a new cygwin tar build > soon. I think the patch should remain cygwin-only, and not go upstream. Hi Eric, Are you still planning to get a new tar build out with this patch in the near future? The issue is causing problems for people installing texlive on Cygwin, which involves untarring lots of symlinks. Thanks. Ken -- 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