On Dec 6 12:37, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/6/2011 4:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.9 has > >been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.10 soon. > > > >Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > >which should have "Release Candidate" quality. > > Here's an easily reproducible problem with the 2011-12-05 > cygwin1.dll snapshot: > > 1. Download cygwin-inst-20111205.tar.bz2 . > > 2. Start mintty from the Cygwin Terminal shortcut. > > 3. tar -C/ -xf /path/to/cygwin-inst-20111205.tar.bz2 > --exclude=usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > > An hourglass appears and tar doesn't run. I'm on W7-64 if that > makes a difference.
Works for me. I just tried from mintty with bash as login shell as well as with tcsh as login shell. I even left out the --exclude and it worked ;) Does that really occur reproducible on your machine, every try? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
