Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/topic/3551901 By: keithmarshall
FWIW, the OP's original examples indicate two distinct problems with GnuWin32's tar implementation: in the first instance, it is failing to spawn a gzip child process, to compress the archive; in the second, it appears to be attempting to recurse the parent directory tree, via the chain of '..' links, (so becoming a malformed entire drive archive), failing when it tries to enter a directory for which the OP lacks access privilege. This simply should not happen: on *nix, '*.*' doesn't match '..' or '.' anyway, but furthermore, IIRC tar isn't supposed to recurse through '..' links, (although it may follow one specified among the command line arguments). _____________________________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this topic or entire forum. To stop monitoring this topic visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/topic/3551901/unmonitor To stop monitoring this forum visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/forums/forum/74807/unmonitor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
