Question about tar v1.28
Eric Blake
eblake@redhat.com
Fri Dec 9 03:04:00 GMT 2016
[reviving an old thread]
On 03/08/2016 05:52 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/08/2016 08:43 AM, Douglas Coup wrote:
>> Hello Cygwin community.
>>
>> I'm observing some unusual behavior with tar v1.28, running as part of
>> 32-bit Cygwin on a Windows 10 machine.
>
> I noticed this in your cygcheck output:
>
>> cygdrive prefix /cygdrive system text,noacl,posix=0,auto
>
> Why are you text-mounting it? Is your current working directory
> somewhere under that text mount? It may be a bug in tar's handling of
> text-mounted files (ideally, tar should be reopening everything binary
> in spite of text mounts, but I may have missed a spot).
In fact, I missed LOTS of spots. My cygwin-specific patches to 1.27
were accidentally not copied to 1.28. I'm fixing it as part of
packaging 1.29, which should hit mirrors soon.
I'm actually a bit surprised that there were so few reports of this
problem in the meantime (I built 1.28 in May 2015, this report was in
March 2016, and I didn't find much else about it in the meantime).
Maybe that means that text mounts are used much less than they used to
be when I took over building tar in 2005, back when setup.exe used to
have a now-removed option to create text mounts at install time.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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