From: Lester Ingber <ingber@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20110428T054651-842@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110427T161737-566@post.gmane.org>
Dan Grayson <dan <at> math.uiuc.edu> writes:
>
> Here is a patch to tar that fixes the problem by using mtime instead of ctime.
> Yes, it's not a problem with cygwin or tar, but I see no way for users to
> figure out, under Windows, which processes are changing the status of their
> files.
>
> diff -ur tar-1.25-copy/src/extract.c tar-1.25/src/extract.c
> --- tar-1.25-copy/src/extract.c 2010-11-01 15:34:59.000000000 -0500
> +++ tar-1.25/src/extract.c 2011-04-27 09:12:58.941555800 -0500
...
>
I ran your patch on tar-1.26 and it compiled just fine. With the new tar I have
no tar/untar problems on two Win7 Ult x64 PCs running up to date Cygwins.
Thanks.
Lester
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-28 3:49 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <BANLkTikh9rCN2GRwY3eW20H0isffN5fMUg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-24 13:57 ` Dima Pasechnik
2011-04-24 16:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-04-26 4:46 ` Lester Ingber
2011-04-26 12:56 ` Dima Pasechnik
2011-04-26 13:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-04-26 15:54 ` Dan Grayson
2011-04-26 16:42 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-04-26 17:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-04-26 17:52 ` Dan Grayson
2011-04-27 16:13 ` Dan Grayson
2011-04-27 16:42 ` Eric Blake
2011-04-27 18:49 ` David Boyce
2011-04-27 20:38 ` Eric Blake
2011-04-28 15:33 ` Dan Grayson
2011-04-28 16:06 ` Eric Blake
2011-05-28 22:21 ` Ken Brown
2011-04-28 4:49 ` Lester Ingber [this message]
2011-04-26 17:58 ` Dan Grayson
2011-06-30 12:43 Wolf Geldmacher
2011-06-30 13:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-30 15:05 ` Ken Brown
2011-06-30 15:26 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-30 15:28 ` Wolf Geldmacher
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2011-04-20 16:02 Daniel R. Grayson
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