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Re: Question about tar v1.28
- From: Bryan Berns <bryan dot berns at gmail dot com>
- To: Douglas Coup <dacoup2 at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 10:36:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: Question about tar v1.28
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> Could be an accidental regression in my cygwin-specific patches betweenthe two versions. But I don't normally use or test on text-mounts, so
> I'll need confirmation that you are indeed experiencing the problem only
>
For what it's worth, I recently had the similar issues with Cygwin tar
on text-mounted volumes in the last year. We had users moving between
Cygwin tar and Redhat tar and there were issues extracting the tar
files. I instructed them to create a binary mount for tar-related
purposes and that addressed the issue. We need to use text-mounts, in
general, for other reasons. It would be great if tar could be
adjusted to operate properly in these scenarios.
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