Hi Cygwin Team, In Cygwin 3.6, I am facing an issue while using tar.exe for extracting .tar.z file.
Issue summary: When I use 'tar.exe' to extract the .tar.z file, it extracts all files including symlinks. But symlink file size will be 0KB & it throws error 'The file cannot be accessed by the system', if I try to open in any Windows editor like notepad or notepad++ Below are the details: - OS: Windows 2019 - Cygwin version installed: 3.6 (tar version: 1.29) - Command used to extract the tar file is: tar -zxvf jre64.tar.Z - 'ls -l' on the extracted directory shows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 etbuild Domain Users 8 Jul 10 2017 ControlPanel -> jcontrol -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 etbuild Domain Users 7734 Mar 15 2017 java -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 etbuild Domain Users 128791 Mar 15 2017 javaws -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 etbuild Domain Users 6264 Mar 15 2017 jcontrol - As you can see 'ControlPanel' is a symlink file with 0KB (8Bytes) size. This file, I cannot open in any Windows editor. It throws error like ''The file cannot be accessed by the system' - However, I can open this file in vi editor or I can 'cat' this. - Earlier, I was using Cygwin version 1.7 (tar version: 1.27) & in that, this issue was not there. Symlink file size was 1KB & I could open it with any Windows editor. Please suggest what needs to be done to fix this issue. Regards Vinay Hegde -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
