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Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly
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On Apr 24 17:14, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> Dear all,
> reposting, as the message did not get through to the mailing list yesterday:
> 
> The issue I have is exactly as described in
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00299.html
> I can reproduce this on a very similar Windows 7 host.
> (To be precise, it seems hard to predict when creating symlinks fails;
> I could say
> that perhaps 20% of them, on average, are not created correctly (i.e.
> I get files of size 0 instead)).

A simple testcase in plain C to reproduce the issue would be fine.
Did you try to create the symlinks under strace?  It should contain
some valuable hint from the function "symlink_worker".


Corinna

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