X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50005D60.5030808@dancol.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:39:44 -0700 From: Daniel Colascione User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive References: <92B65842B4224F3FA65CE40F3608F7DF@multiplay.co.uk> <20120712010353.GB14112@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <447894CEE2E7427F8E0AFC5A206BAD92@multiplay.co.uk> <981681190.20120712160313@mtu-net.ru> <4FFED62A.7060106@cygwin.com> <4FFEFE4B.5060107@sister-shadow.de> <20120713172641.GA3399@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20120713172641.GA3399@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCDA48B95BC8D8E6F717C0520" 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 --------------enigCDA48B95BC8D8E6F717C0520 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 7/13/12 10:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > So, everyone, please let this drop unless you have a constructive > suggestion. Speaking of pragmatism: what about a CYGWIN environment variable to turn off the behavior? That way, people like the OP could extract their archives without worry, and it wouldn't affect the majority of people. We could go one step beyond that and have rsync, tar, and so on turn off the feature internally too so that everything just works. --------------enigCDA48B95BC8D8E6F717C0520 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 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAlAAXWIACgkQ17c2LVA10VuzUgCfX8NaRZP1fTVfQkmORpoKfCXN IVEAn0GMdH6/VPrv2U4SoHoPA0bigLYH =cNMM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCDA48B95BC8D8E6F717C0520--