From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120712010353.GB14112@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92B65842B4224F3FA65CE40F3608F7DF@multiplay.co.uk>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:39:41AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
>From: "Aaron Schneider"
>> $ touch myfile myfile.exe
>>
>> $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile
>>
>> $ tar -xvf mytar.tar
>>
>> Only myfile will be written to the filesystem
>
>Yep, apparently its "by design" :(
>
>It causes us pain regularly so we would like this fairly
>recent change reverted so behaviour is once again predicatable
>and it doesnt break simple takess like extracting archive.
Yes, yes. The pain. The pain. Danger Will Robinson!
There really is not much point in rehashing this again under a different
subject.
If you or anyone would like to offer patches which change the behavior
while keeping everyone happy about .exe handling please do so.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-11 20:51 Aaron Schneider
2012-07-11 21:03 ` marco atzeri
2012-07-12 0:40 ` Steven Hartland
2012-07-12 1:04 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2012-07-12 1:17 ` Steven Hartland
2012-07-12 12:05 ` Andrey Repin
2012-07-12 13:51 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-12 16:26 ` Andy Hall
2012-07-12 16:42 ` Otto Meta
2012-07-12 17:09 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-13 16:20 ` Andy Hall
2012-07-13 17:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-13 17:40 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-07-13 1:05 ` Andrey Repin
2012-09-04 23:53 ` Steven Hartland
2012-09-05 6:18 ` Christopher Faylor
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