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Re: [Bug-tar] incorrect reporting of harlink mismatch


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: 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



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