With tar-1.23-1 and recent snapshot: echo foo > foo ln -s $PWD/foo bar tar cf test.tar bar foo rm -f bar foo tar xf test.tar ls -l bar foo
You will see that 'bar' is a 0-byte file with 0000 permissions instead of a symlink. The symlink reference need not be absolute; it also happens with relative links in different directories, but does not happen if I just "ln -s foo bar". Yaakov -- 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
