From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4799 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 01:04:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4791 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2012 01:04:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_CV,TW_XV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:03:55 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-45-230.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.45.230] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sp7ow-000DFg-Gr for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:03:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B5042967D for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:03:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/ycaoI7472+vw7xTzaIFiM Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:04:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor 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 Message-ID: <20120712010353.GB14112@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <92B65842B4224F3FA65CE40F3608F7DF@multiplay.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <92B65842B4224F3FA65CE40F3608F7DF@multiplay.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2012-07/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 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. -- 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