Dear all, that's roughly what I also sent to the list in reply to Corinna's message, but it didn't get through (spamfilter? blacklist? - no idea). I tried sending 4 times, and all these messages went to a black hole...
On 25 April 2011 22:59, Lester Ingber <ing...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > >> >> On Apr 24 17:14, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> > Dear all, >> > reposting, as the message did not get through to the mailing list >> > yesterday: >> > >> > The issue I have is exactly as described in >> > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00299.html >> > I can reproduce this on a very similar Windows 7 host. >> > (To be precise, it seems hard to predict when creating symlinks fails; >> > I could say >> > that perhaps 20% of them, on average, are not created correctly (i.e. >> > I get files of size 0 instead)). >> >> A simple testcase in plain C to reproduce the issue would be fine. >> Did you try to create the symlinks under strace? It should contain >> some valuable hint from the function "symlink_worker". >> >> Corinna >> > > The problem seems to be with untar, not tar per se. Just today, I did `tar > cp` > a directory of a few hundred links under Cygwin. Under an unbuntu machine I > recovered all files and links just fine. Under Cygwin, all files were 0 and > permissions were "----------" instead of "lrwxrwxrwx" as in the original > directory. (Yesterday, half the links were 0. After compiling tar-12.6 from > gnu.org I still got 8 0's. I then moved that tar to tar-1.26 yesterday.) I > include an excerpt of the log of `tar xfp` doing this with strace just for one > file, index.html. > [...] Dmitrii -- 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
