From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125186 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2019 12:39:25 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 125178 invoked by uid 89); 21 Apr 2019 12:39:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=H*RU:sk:broadba, HX-Spam-Relays-External:sk:broadba, H*UA:x64, H*UA:Win64 X-HELO: mail-lj1-f175.google.com Received: from mail-lj1-f175.google.com (HELO mail-lj1-f175.google.com) (209.85.208.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:39:24 +0000 Received: by mail-lj1-f175.google.com with SMTP id h21so8177389ljk.13 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:39:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:autocrypt:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=1/Z9YhV1aSJNBkSchWcdVquAbiY6UrWcp+xo8aHDhlI=; b=vCzlhAw2XQuJEkZMcOvkd6WKkPgT8TjeBM1f2+roW6svHpTTByMbvn8+DUjdA1KIOj cIQnGPmG8yO0g4EoHbUe0eFOVCdpCHit0W5RExo8dJTT06qio79OZ9dNI1cyYaVWVPp1 kRvncKB1PbRIkd/gyQwR+/2eWwRNKSl2vimL3eX/4w5oabVz0J91M/kr5fJIL4ZER9DF JgxQpbuG2lpspVhvaxr62vW0UTpyZz6OX55V7ZJYqDj6+OobvvdT0NfGGJidGlfbT2yB bZ+JTJe4+cC5gpdyKWorC5deivpdrLTJ7kWFHvw/rHs6Atia0E5IEN4N2HYf1W+IwaiU yQyQ== Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.4.39] (broadband-95-84-200-6.ip.moscow.rt.ru. [95.84.200.6]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n4sm2445096lfe.15.2019.04.21.05.39.19 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: LRN Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:39:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kc4Mq0TylaEF4CMdXssDEiRzN6CbciXD6" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-04/txt/msg00146.txt.bz2 --Kc4Mq0TylaEF4CMdXssDEiRzN6CbciXD6 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="6EWirSEEwuppqkLZUIwDVBLpAbe7uxDtd"; protected-headers="v1" From: LRN To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Subject: Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected --6EWirSEEwuppqkLZUIwDVBLpAbe7uxDtd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 817 On 21.04.2019 14:45, Matt D. wrote: >=20 > I had the same problem while trying to tar and untar: >=20 > tar: aosp/source/system/vold/.git/shallow: Cannot create symlink to=20 > =E2=80=98../../../.repo/projects/system/vold.git/shallow=E2=80=99: No suc= h file or directory My current workaround for *this* particular problem is to catch the "Cannot create symlink" message and attempt to re-run tar multiple times until the message is no longer outputted or the script runs out of attempts. This wor= ks OK, unless the symlink graph is maliciously gnarly. I doubt that this will be fixed anytime soon, it's a property of the NTFS, = and you should have known what you were signing on for when you enabled winsymlinks:nativestrict (i'm assuming that you did; otherwise you shouldn't have been getting these errors). --6EWirSEEwuppqkLZUIwDVBLpAbe7uxDtd-- --Kc4Mq0TylaEF4CMdXssDEiRzN6CbciXD6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 833 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE4MWzR43wYaAzEA49ja3pJ2dZunQFAly8ZHEACgkQja3pJ2dZ unSYKQ/+P865k0YFlDrLqusvoOXrF2JJQssYd4P+3dGgwN38BYj0ZdXxKE7JsC8D FY2QlQ6B0Gj8wKksMONpdp98mCtbf9Fa+T50FLey2Vcbc1+UA8Blgrd1W9cx0ce+ 4y1Wt2vZkATwx+2ZPFHr8Vz5myvX8vihmStmVydKPV72eKjCBxivLlI86QWnffpA DSEGOD3GPs+v8M8+Q0ZqcjiVIpErylYrYi3ELZoD3zVuRoi7xtZ0IzbohqfrgnGb wY/ojnNz7KMt7df42MH+4yMqvc+0yi7EaMXEbX0/f/5Nwd8y+LsM0Fb90wfZRS/o tHwLHA5XTFu7FpsR7RsAhGyPmlaM6ELV2KqX6T3cdorqlY27xVy1DdFLBXzoccSO hv/s43NdyH0S2xaWxWsamvlq6Ndub7hdJB7NVD9WebsW1VmwNRYri0cj8Q3/iRtW WLuO1XKyDPGwGQ3DFqTGLHTrHmupMGFG0RQSYarJ8oVVNLZ5XJrBAj0jgThY0lIM HAUWf6OvGbNZZMJ5mQIWh+4XLkfu2HDTSBbUQ3Y+hqYpJGKP45efsrWq8+tI7wC9 sG+GOFtX5MbkUQJwn7J2wxnyceIA5Gs6/EvFCwyQxlnXsxF5zgWbRd2x0zrOpQFE efEipi+BFqyYzGSJlb16qapXsiH+LD51rha2SgvkfKGp5OhcqdM= =dUgY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kc4Mq0TylaEF4CMdXssDEiRzN6CbciXD6--