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Re: [Bug-tar] extracting broken symlinks


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] extracting broken symlinks
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:46:57 -0600
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According to Sergey Poznyakoff on 8/24/2007 5:53 AM:
> $ ls ../nowhere *
> ls: ../nowhere: No such file or directory
> bad.tar  broken
> $ tar xvpf bad.tar
> broken
> $ ls ../nowhere *
> /usr/bin/ls: ../nowhere: No such file or directory
> bad.tar  broken
> 
> Did I miss something?

I'm still seeing it on cygwin with CVS tar, so at this point, I'm
suspecting cygwin instead.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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