Yes, sorry, I tried to send an email waving everyone off. I did not have available a linux machine with the same version until this morning, when I downloaded and compiled the 1.23 and found it existed as well there. I have re-posted to tar-bug list and await their response.
Thanks On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/25/2010 10:49 PM, Jeremy Warren wrote: >> >> I have duplicated the following behavior on 2 different machines >> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.7.6(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-16 16:06 i686 (Windows 2003 R2 >> Server) >> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 (Windows XP Desktop) >> Both are running tar version 1.23-1 and the problem is 100% >> reproducible in my environment. > > Have you also tested this on Linux? I've done very little in the way of > cygwin patches (mainly binary mode handling issues), so this is likely an > upstream regression that affects all platforms. Note: I haven't had time to > test it myself, yet. > >> It appears from the release notes that some changes were made in >> 1.23-1 related to the --remove-files argument >> "** The --remove-files option removes files only if they were >> succesfully stored in the archive." > > -- > Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
