Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-09-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:52:29AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: Quite an old issue, Uh yeah. So really no need to resurrect it. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-09-04 Thread Steven Hartland
Quite an old issue, its due to the special handling of .exe files if you search the archives you'll find lots of mentions of it. Regards Steve - Original Message - From: Aaron Schneider $ touch myfile myfile.exe $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile $ tar -xvf

RE: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-13 Thread Andy Hall
2. Since this is a Windows thing, is there some reason why the execution of file or file.exe isn't handled as a special case in the exec call (and all its flavors) and no place else? make, for example? If you have a rule that creates foo from foo.c, gcc will actually create foo.exe.

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:20:11AM -0700, Andy Hall wrote: 2. Since this is a Windows thing, is there some reason why the execution of file or file.exe isn't handled as a special case in the exec call (and all its flavors) and no place else? make, for example? If you have a rule that creates

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-13 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 7/13/12 10:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, everyone, please let this drop unless you have a constructive suggestion. Speaking of pragmatism: what about a CYGWIN environment variable to turn off the behavior? That way, people like the OP could extract their archives without worry, and it

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Steven Hartland! There really is not much point in rehashing this again under a different subject. If you or anyone would like to offer patches which change the behavior emphasis while keeping everyone happy about .exe handling /emphasis please do so. Isn't the commit which

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/12/2012 8:03 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Steven Hartland! There really is not much point in rehashing this again under a different subject. If you or anyone would like to offer patches which change the behavior emphasis while keeping everyone happy about .exe handling /emphasis

RE: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-12 Thread Andy Hall
On 7/12/2012 8:03 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Steven Hartland! There really is not much point in rehashing this again under a different subject. If you or anyone would like to offer patches which change the behavior emphasis while keeping everyone happy about .exe handling

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-12 Thread Otto Meta
2. Since this is a Windows thing, is there some reason why the execution of file or file.exe isn't handled as a special case in the exec call (and all its flavors) and no place else? make, for example? If you have a rule that creates foo from foo.c, gcc will actually create foo.exe. The next

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote: 2. Since this is a Windows thing, is there some reason why the execution of file or file.exe isn't handled as a special case in the exec call (and all its flavors) and no place else? make, for example? If you have a rule that creates

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andy Hall! At the risk of adding more fuel to the fire, let me add my 2 cents worth to this. 1. As a long time and frequent user of tar and rsync to transfer files and directories between Windows and various UNIX flavors, I have been astonished (and severely burned) by the fact

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-11 Thread marco atzeri
On 7/11/2012 10:50 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote: $ touch myfile myfile.exe $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile $ tar -xvf mytar.tar Only myfile will be written to the filesystem Aaron, you are starting to bore. it seems that you ignored every info

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-11 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Aaron Schneider $ touch myfile myfile.exe $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile $ tar -xvf mytar.tar Only myfile will be written to the filesystem Yep, apparently its by design :( It causes us pain regularly so we would like this fairly recent change

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:39:41AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: From: Aaron Schneider $ touch myfile myfile.exe $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile $ tar -xvf mytar.tar Only myfile will be written to the filesystem Yep, apparently its by design :( It causes us pain regularly so we

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-11 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:39:41AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: From: Aaron Schneider $ touch myfile myfile.exe $ tar -cvf mytar.tar myfile.exe myfile $ tar -xvf mytar.tar Only myfile will be written to the filesystem Yep,