> From: Eric Blake > On 01/07/2011 01:06 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > Using Cygwin 1.7.7, the following behavior started recently, > > but I can't think of any change that may be the culprit: > > I can. Most likely, you recently ran setup.exe and upgraded tar.
Indeed. :-) > Upstream tar includes a patch to make it more picky about stat() > structures changing behind the scenes, that older tar was ignoring. > Which in turn is exposing (yet another) buggy file system that cygwin > needs to be taught how to work around. I'm guessing that the tar patch patched more than just tar because: 1) I wasn't invoking tar, just cp; and 2) after downgrading tar to 1.23-1, the behavior persists. How should I downgrade to previous (working) behavior? --Ken Nellis