X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4D2B49A4.3080709@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:02:12 -0500 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied References: <4D2782F6 DOT 9060103 AT redhat DOT com> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F201CCDFDE AT A1DAL1SWPES19MB DOT ams DOT acs-inc DOT net> In-Reply-To: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F201CCDFDE@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 1/10/2011 8:55 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> From: Eric Blake >> On 01/07/2011 01:06 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >>> Using Cygwin 1.7.7, the following behavior started recently, >>> but I can't think of any change that may be the culprit: >> >> I can. Most likely, you recently ran setup.exe and upgraded tar. > > Indeed. :-) > >> Upstream tar includes a patch to make it more picky about stat() >> structures changing behind the scenes, that older tar was ignoring. >> Which in turn is exposing (yet another) buggy file system that cygwin >> needs to be taught how to work around. > > I'm guessing that the tar patch patched more than just tar because: > 1) I wasn't invoking tar, just cp; and > 2) after downgrading tar to 1.23-1, the behavior persists. > > How should I downgrade to previous (working) behavior? Rerun 'setup.exe' and click on the version next to the tar package until you see the previous one display. Continue from there. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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