On 11/15/2019 10:12 AM, Keith Christian wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 7:40 AM Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: >> >> On 11/15/2019 9:19 AM, Keith Christian wrote: >>> 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? >> >> Works for me. Could you have some anti-virus software that's interfering? >> Look >> for suspicious DLLs in the strace output. >> >> Ken > > Ken, thanks for replying. > > These are the DLL's in the strace output, expanded with "ldd." I > don't see anything out of the ordinary.
I don't either. > Is there a list of DLL's known to cause problems with Cygwin? Not that I know of. But there is the BLODA list (https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda). Have you checked that? If you want to post the strace output somewhere or send it to me off-list, I'll see if I notice anything unusual. Posting it somewhere is better, so that others can look also. Ken -- 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
