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Re: [Bug-tar] Circular symlinks lead to segfault
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Circular symlinks lead to segfault |
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:45:55 +0100 |
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nail 11.22 3/20/05 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, it's a problem if you give 'tar' an infinite tree, because tar
> tries very hard to dump the whole thing, and having it check for loops
> would slow it down. The simplest workaround I can think of is to not
> use -h unless you know the tree is finite.
BTW: star implements a method to detect loops in the filesystem that does not
cost extra time.
Jörg
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