L A Walsh writes: > Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures: > > Several of the sort: > > tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory > tar: Desktops: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory > tar: DiskView: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory > tar: LoadOrd: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory > tar: portmon: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory > > Where the item listed (Dbgview, DiskView, etc) is a > windows symlink like: > > 2019/02/07 22:53 <SYMLINK> Dbgview [SI\Dbgview.exe] > 2019/02/07 22:53 <SYMLINK> Desktops [SI\Desktops.exe] > 2019/02/07 22:53 <SYMLINK> DiskView [SI\DiskView.exe] > > and stems from the use of the --xattrs switch.
Hmm. Looks like some of the symlink / attrs content is taking a route that doesn't deal correctly with '\' as a path separator. Which isn't too terribly surprising in a way, but it would still be useful to find out where. Can you run (a pared down) example in strace and show the result? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
