bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

Achim Gratz Stromeko@nexgo.de
Wed Jun 16 17:22:16 GMT 2021


L A Walsh writes:
> Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures:
>
> Several of the sort:
>
> tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
> tar: Desktops: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
> tar: DiskView: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
> tar: LoadOrd: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
> tar: portmon: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory
>
> Where the item listed (Dbgview, DiskView, etc) is a
> windows symlink like:
>
> 2019/02/07  22:53    <SYMLINK>      Dbgview [SI\Dbgview.exe]
> 2019/02/07  22:53    <SYMLINK>      Desktops [SI\Desktops.exe]
> 2019/02/07  22:53    <SYMLINK>      DiskView [SI\DiskView.exe]
>
> and stems from the use of the --xattrs switch.

Hmm.  Looks like some of the symlink / attrs content is taking a route
that doesn't deal correctly with '\' as a path separator.  Which isn't
too terribly surprising in a way, but it would still be useful to find
out where.  Can you run (a pared down) example in strace and show the
result?



Regards,
Achim.
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