Cygwin test 3.5.0 tar symlinks error messages and failure status
Achim Gratz
Stromeko@nexgo.de
Sun May 28 05:42:38 GMT 2023
Brian Inglis via Cygwin writes:
> Problem writing tar (with Cygwin default sys) symlinks before target
> created under Cygwin 3.5.0 - error messages are issued and tar exits
> with failure status!
[…]
> The only likely culprit between 3.4.6 and that commit seems to be
> commit 2023-04-18 fa84aa4dd2fb43eaf7fcdfb040aef854f2f19d01 Cygwin: fix
> errno values set by readlinkat.
>
> Still seems to work as expected despite the error messages and failure status.
>
> Runs without any messages or failure under Cygwin stable 3.4.6.
The interface mentioned above is known to be wonky on various systems.
You might need to re-build tar in oder for it to detect any changed
level of wonkiness and adapt accordingly.
Regards,
Achim.
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