X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT 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 AT cygwin DOT 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 AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk> <20120712010353 DOT GB14112 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <447894CEE2E7427F8E0AFC5A206BAD92 AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk> <981681190 DOT 20120712160313 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <4FFED62A DOT 7060106 AT cygwin DOT com> <4FFEFE4B DOT 5060107 AT sister-shadow DOT de> <20120713172641 DOT GA3399 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT 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 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 --------------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--