Re: [Bug-tar] dereferencing broken since 1.24?

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/06/11 10:06, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> The last example I provided has no hard links.

No, actually, it has hard link.  In the typical case (which
is what you had), a regular file has one hard link to it.
Less commonly, regular files can have two or more (or zero!)
hard links.

> Are you saying that tar now behaves the same,
> regardless of whether there is a hard link to foo?

More accurately, I'm saying that tar now behaves the same,
regardless of the number of hard links to foo.

> So dereferencing a symlink will always produce a hard link in the archive?

No, dereferencing a symlink will always produce whatever would have
been produced had the symlink been replaced by whatever it points to.
Typically this will not be a hard link in the archive.