Re: [Bug-tar] Option -h of tar 1.26 is broken

[Juan PC]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for replying.

El 16/11/11 07:31, Paul Eggert escribió:
> On 11/15/11 11:27, Juan PC wrote:
> > tar xvzf test.tgz etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
> > etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
> > tar: etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd: Cannot hard link to `etc/rc0.d/K15httpd': No such 
> > file or directory
>
> At that point, test.tgz looks like this:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root      3371 2011-09-13 06:47 etc/rc0.d/K15httpd
> hrwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-09-13 06:47 etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd link to 
> etc/rc0.d/K15httpd
>
> There are no symbolic links here, just hard links.  And yes,
> tar cannot extract a hard link to a file that does not
> exist -- that's a property that is inherent to hard links.
> I'm afraid.
Ummm, true, but is not it an unexpected behavior that symlinks are 
replaced with hard links?

Regards,

        Juan

> It's possible to imagine a tar option or variant
> that would cause it to extract the original file under the
> hard-linked name, but that'd be quite a performance hog, since
> it'd have to remember all the files in the input, and their
> contents.


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