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Re: [Bug-tar] incorrect reporting of harlink mismatch
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] incorrect reporting of harlink mismatch |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:14:38 +0200 |
Hi Cezary,
> To reproduce the bug, enter these shell commands
That's not a bug, but intended behaviour.
> ln a/y a/z
[...]
> rm a/z
> ln -s x a/z
You are replacing a hard link with a symbolic one. These are two
distinct types of objects, both for filesystem and for the archive.
Regards,
Sergey