Tar in recent updates to Cygwin64 hangs. When the tar command is run with strace, it generates voluminous output but won't list tar file contents or extract the tar file (or tar.gz, tar.xz, etc.)
tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. ls -l /usr/bin/tar.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 kchris0000 Domain Users 424979 Dec 8 2016 /usr/bin/tar.exe Could someone check this please? -- 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
