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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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  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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