[Bug-tar] Cannot change mode for symbolic links with tar 1.26

[Kevin Day]

I recently switched from tar-1.23 to tar-1.26.
I tried to extract an icon theme, such as Tango, that has a lot of
image files and a lot of symbolic links.

All files seem to extract properly, but permissions on some of the
files were never set properly.

The error case was pretty easy for me to reproduce and I fine tuned
the case down to a few small commands below:


# mkdir directory

# for i in a b c d ; do touch directory/$i ; done

# ln -s a directory/1
# ln -s b directory/2
# ln -s c directory/3

# tar -c directory > directory.tar
# rm -Rf directory
# tar -xf directory.tar


As soon as I extract the tarball I get the following messages:
  tar: directory/1: Cannot change mode to rwxrwx---: No such file or directory
  tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

All of the files appear to be extracted.
The files a and d have proper permissions, but b and c do not.
All symbolic links are correctly extracted and point to the proper files.

If I symbolic links are omitted from the tarball, then there are no
error messages displayed.


-- 
Kevin Day