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Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly
Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes:
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> No, because they don't use ctime the way that cygwin1.dll uses ctime.
> They probably have other hacks in their port of tar to work around lack
> of POSIX features that cygwin1.dll is emulating.
Do you mean that the implementation of ctime in cygwin1.dll might be
improvable? How is it implemented?
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