Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: bug in 'tar -h' Date: 01 Aug 2002 13:09:58 -0400 Organization: disorganization Lines: 13 Message-ID: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.114.186.226 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028221764 14826 65.114.186.226 (1 Aug 2002 17:09:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:09:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 'tar -h' is supposed to dereference symbolic links and store the actual files instead. it dereferences just once instead of all: if `foo' links to `bar' which links to `zot', `tar -cfh z foo' will store `bar' instead of `zot' in `z'. is this a known byg? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there isn't any. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/