X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:37:03 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly Message-ID: <20110630133703.GE9552@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1309437783.2097.68.camel@geldmacher-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1309437783.2097.68.camel@geldmacher-pc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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. 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