Opened 16 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#3406 closed bug (fixed)
GNU tar breaks on extracting hardlinks
| Reported by: | mmu_man | Owned by: | axeld |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Applications/Command Line Tools | Version: | R1/pre-alpha1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
Reported by Joerg Schilling, obviously triggered because BFS doesn't support hardlinks:
GNU tar is unable to correclty extract files that are past the hard link in the archive. The standard requires that a tar in such a case skips the file in the archive or extracts it as a plain file
The usual GNU tar bug that I posted in 1993..... "skipping to next header" and not working correclty after that place
cf. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/schily-2009-01-05.tar.bz2
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
| Summary: | GNU tar breaks on extracting hardfiles → GNU tar breaks on extracting hardlinks |
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comment:2 by , 16 years ago
comment:3 by , 15 years ago
The current tar package seems to handle this correctly when tested with the tarball in the description. It prints out an error when it encounters the linked file but continues with extraction.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Closing this one out. As reported by korli and augiedoggie, tar now prints out an error message and then continues along. Seems to function as we'd expect it to without support for hard links. Tested with tar-1.25 OptionalPackage installed.
I fail to reproduce here.