untar of sym links randomly works or creates empty files

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

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