Problem with cp.exe (in Cygwin 3.6 64 bit): permission preserve

2020-10-13 Thread vinay Hegde via Cygwin
Hello Cygwin Team, We are upgrading Cygwin from 1.7.31 32 bit to 3.6 64 bit. With the earlier version, 'cp -fp' command used to work without any error. Now, we get an error like, 'cp: preserving permissions for not supported. Here is my understanding about ACLs & File permission in Cygwin:

Re: Problem with tar version 1.29 (in Cygwin 3.6 64 bit) in extracting sym-link files

2020-10-02 Thread vinay Hegde via Cygwin
13 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > > On 10/2/2020 11:26 AM, vinay Hegde via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi Cygwin Team, > > In Cygwin 3.6, I am facing an issue while using tar.exe for extracting > > .tar.z file. > > > > Issue summary: > > When I use 'tar.exe' to extract the

Problem with tar version 1.29 (in Cygwin 3.6 64 bit) in extracting sym-link files

2020-10-02 Thread vinay Hegde via Cygwin
Hi Cygwin Team, In Cygwin 3.6, I am facing an issue while using tar.exe for extracting .tar.z file. Issue summary: When I use 'tar.exe' to extract the .tar.z file, it extracts all files including symlinks. But symlink file size will be 0KB & it throws error 'The file cannot be accessed by the