On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:35:34PM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: >Hello: > >I believe I have the latest cygwin, tar, and bash loaded. When >I take a Linux tar file (~500k), containing a mix of files and >symbolic links, untarring with cygwin's tar randomly creates >several empty files instead of symbolic links. ( This linux tar >file is one I create, it changes every week or two. ) If I repeat >the same tar command, different empty files result instead of the >symbolic links. So after each untar I search for empty files, and >then untar the corresponding symbolic links again - so far this >workaround has always worked. > >Not asking for a solution. Submitting this incomplete report for now.
The fact that you are seeing spaces treated as semicolons and symlinks treated as blank files makes me wonder if you have a virus or at least a BLODA. -- 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
