Re: Bug?

[Anthony Tuininga]

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:01, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Anthony Tuininga <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > It would seem to me that the restoration of symbolic links is postponed
> > until the end of the process. Is that true?
> 
> Yes.  This is for security reasons.

Would you be able to explain in a little more detail? Or point me to a
document that does the explaining? I find this confusing.

> > And is there any better way of handling the restoration of symbolic
> > links in the case of an interruption?
> 
> Yes, tar should probably catch the signal and restore the symlinks
> at that point.

I guess so, if it cannot be done at the time of extraction.

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Anthony Tuininga <address@hidden>