On Jun 30 14:43, Wolf Geldmacher wrote: > Dear all, > > just joining after being hit by an obviously known issue: > > Running tar (in my case to extract openssl-0.9.8r.tar.gz) results in > symbolic links being randomly substituted by zero length mode 0 files as > described in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00299.html. > > For me this happens on both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. > > The interesting (new?) tidbit: > > In sheer desparation I downgraded from cygwin1.dll/1.7.9.1 to > cygwin1.ddl/1.7.8.1 via setup.exe and the issue seems to be gone. > > As this is the only change I made: Is it possible that the problem is > not an issue with tar (as discussed on the mailing list) but in fact a > regression in cygwin1.dll?
I never saw this happen. Therefore, somebody actually seeing this problem has to debug it. The least I need is an strace. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
