tar 1.33 symlinks : Cannot change mode to...

[Marco Atzeri]

On 12.01.2021 09:18, ASSI wrote:
> Ken Brown via Cygwin writes:
>> I can confirm this.  Running the tar command under gdb shows a problem
>> at gnu/fchmodat.c:94:
>>
>> 94            if (S_ISLNK (st.st_mode))
> 
> That should be foolproof, but apparently isn't.

> 
> Unfortunately the handful of commits that might change the behaviour for
> this situation elsewhere are knotty, so bisecting will not really
> help much I'm afraid.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
> 

rebuild 1.32 to verify that is not a change in Cygwin definitions,
Python rebuild was it by that.