X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly
From: Wolf Geldmacher <wolf DOT geldmacher AT abacus DOT ch>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:43:03 +0200
Message-ID: <1309437783.2097.68.camel@geldmacher-pc>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

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?

Regards,
Wolf



--
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