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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:57:02 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11
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- Reply-to: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
On 12/16/2010 10:35 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> On 2010-04-17 11:57, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 4/17/2010 10:42 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>> > This release will not compress a file with multiple hard links, even
>>> when "forced".
>>>
>>> I'm running an NTFS drive, and my source file has 2 hard-links to it.
>>> Running "xz -9evf source.txt" prints:
>>> xz: source.txt: Input file has more than one hard link, skipping
>>>
>>> When using "4.999.9beta-10", it correctly compresses that file.
>>
>> Thanks for the report. I'll investigate and report it upstream.
>> --
>> Chuck
>
> Did you ever get a response about this?
No, I didn't. Thanks for the nudge.
Now that 5.0 is out, officially, I'll give it another test and poke
upstream again, but probably not until the holidays.
--
Chuck
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