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Re: [Bug-tar] Circular symlinks lead to segfault
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Circular symlinks lead to segfault |
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:58:17 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 25 of March 2015 13:31:12 Paul Eggert 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.
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> Perhaps you could write a patch to have tar check for loops when the -h
> option is given? It could use the hash-table code already in there.
I believe this is the same issue we discussed some time ago:
https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg04542.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-07/msg00013.html
Pavel