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? Regards, Wolf -- 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
