Re: [Bug-tar] TAR creates hard links or duplicated files inside archive when using -T option

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 21:12:47 +0100, Live user wrote:
> The issue is very easy to reproduce:
> 
> mkdir -p r/libs/ r/prefs/
> 
> touch _manifest \
> r/androidTrophy.dat \
> r/libs/libAndroid.so \
> r/InsTime \
> r/prefs/gl_ver
> 
> Put into list.txt :
> _manifest
> r/androidTrophy.dat
> r/libs/
> r/libs/libAndroid.so
> r/InsTime
> r/prefs/
> r/prefs/gl_ver
> 
> tar -cvf myarchive.tar -T list.txt
> 
> There are 2 hard links created, libAndroid.so and gl_ver

I believe that if you look closely at the output of the tar command
you'll see that each of those files is added to the the archive as part
of the processing the containing directory, and then a hard-link entry
is added when the the list.txt line containing the explict filename is
processed.

If that's indeed the problem, then using the "--no-recursion" option
should avoid the issue.

                                                        Nathan


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