From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30427 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2011 15:26:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 30345 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2011 15:26:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:26:09 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 616D52CB3F8; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:26:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:26:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly Message-ID: <20110630152606.GK9552@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1309437783.2097.68.camel@geldmacher-pc> <20110630133703.GE9552@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E0C90B2.2060409@cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E0C90B2.2060409@cornell.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00348.txt.bz2 On Jun 30 11:05, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/30/2011 9:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 30 14:43, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > >>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? > > > >I never saw this happen. Therefore, somebody actually seeing this > >problem has to debug it. The least I need is an strace. > > I'm not sure it needs further debugging. The patch to tar given in > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00385.html > > solves the problem. Eric said (in the next message) that he will > apply this to the next release of tar. In the meantime, it's easy > to download the tar source, apply the patch, and rebuild. Thanks for the reminder. That's one problem less to worry about :} Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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