-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Rodman on 10/13/2006 11:51 PM: > > tar seems to be following the pre-existing soft link on the file system, > and then writing to that target, instead of just replacing the soft > link on the file system.
Odd, I'll have to look further into it when I get time. Could it also be related to the fact that the symlink does not contain the .exe extension? And now that tar 1.15.92 is out, I'm due to release an upgrade, anyway. > > This approach does not have any problems: > > tar zUxf /tmp/foo.tar.gz > - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin tar maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFMNx284KuGfSFAYARAtXAAJ9C5A52kFlvkEscQkdVmejdYGTvcACeIWV7 BPDZ0JM89FtyDvbe8sZqoqE= =gv+H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
