untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly
Wolf Geldmacher
wolf.geldmacher@abacus.ch
Thu Jun 30 12:43:00 GMT 2011
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
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