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Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly


On 04/27/2011 10:10 AM, David Boyce wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> I think the patch should remain cygwin-only, and not go upstream.
> 
> What about native Windows builds of GNU tar such as GnuWin32? Wouldn't
> they benefit from a (suitably conditionalized) patch too?

No, because they don't use ctime the way that cygwin1.dll uses ctime.
They probably have other hacks in their port of tar to work around lack
of POSIX features that cygwin1.dll is emulating.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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