On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:39:41AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >From: "Aaron Schneider" >> $ touch myfile myfile.exe >> >> $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile >> >> $ tar -xvf mytar.tar >> >> Only myfile will be written to the filesystem > >Yep, apparently its "by design" :( > >It causes us pain regularly so we would like this fairly >recent change reverted so behaviour is once again predicatable >and it doesnt break simple takess like extracting archive.
Yes, yes. The pain. The pain. Danger Will Robinson! There really is not much point in rehashing this again under a different subject. If you or anyone would like to offer patches which change the behavior while keeping everyone happy about .exe handling please do so. -- 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
