From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9770 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 01:17:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 9762 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2012 01:17:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,TW_CV,TW_XV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail1.multiplay.co.uk (HELO mail1.multiplay.co.uk) (85.236.96.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:17:05 +0000 X-Spam-Processed: mail1.multiplay.co.uk, Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:17:05 +0100 Received: from r2d2 ([188.220.16.49]) by mail1.multiplay.co.uk (mail1.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.23]) (MDaemon PRO v10.0.4) with ESMTP id md50020725826.msg for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:17:04 +0100 X-MDRemoteIP: 188.220.16.49 X-Return-Path: prvs=15408cd04b=killing@multiplay.co.uk X-Envelope-From: killing@multiplay.co.uk X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <447894CEE2E7427F8E0AFC5A206BAD92@multiplay.co.uk> From: "Steven Hartland" To: References: <92B65842B4224F3FA65CE40F3608F7DF@multiplay.co.uk> <20120712010353.GB14112@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> 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 01:17:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00206.txt.bz2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" > 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. Isn't the commit which changed the behaviour stored so where, as this has worked fine in the past, so in theory it could be just applied in reverse? Regards Steve -- 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