Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-07-03 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: 2019/02/07 22:53 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

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-19 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or director, Where the item listed (Dbgview, ...) is a windows symlink like: 2019/02/07 22:53

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-19 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or director, Where the item listed (Dbgview, ...) is a windows symlink like: 2019/02/07 22:53

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-16 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
Replay by from my phone, so it's a bit brief... Try opening a Cygwin terminal AS administrator, making sure it gives you the "process may modify the system" warning dialog, etc... Then repeat If it works, or complains less, then the problem is permissions at *some* level. Despite Windows having

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-16 Thread Achim Gratz
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 llistxatt

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-15 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/15 00:16, Russell VT wrote: I think we need more context, here... as what does Windows versus Cygwin think those permissions are...??? --- Which permissions? The error is 'no such object', not 'access denied'. I believe it is similar to trying to read (or modify) xattr's

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-15 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
I think we need more context, here... as what does Windows versus Cygwin think those permissions are...??? Are you running your terminal, as you... or did you run it as Administrator? Have you run an update, and not rebooted? There should be some "basic shell debugging" done here, first... since

bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
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 director