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Subject: Re: "/usr/bin/tar.exe" hangs, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64
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On 11/15/2019 9:19 AM, Keith Christian wrote:
> Tar in recent updates to Cygwin64 hangs.
> 
> When the tar command is run with strace, it generates voluminous
> output but won't list tar file contents or extract the tar file (or
> tar.gz, tar.xz, etc.)
> 
> tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.29
> Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1)
> Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> 
> ls -l /usr/bin/tar.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 kchris0000 Domain Users 424979 Dec  8  2016 /usr/bin/tar.exe
> 
> 
> Could someone check this please?

Works for me.  Could you have some anti-virus software that's interfering?  Look 
for suspicious DLLs in the strace output.

Ken

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