Re: tar hangs on dangling symlink when extracting with --wildcards

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

On 2024-05-27 13:15, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Thanks for your report. However, I can't reproduce this behavior.
> The command
>
>    tar xavf news002f1.tar.bz2 --wildcards '*trek*'
>
> terminates with code 2 and the following diagnostics:
>
> src/tar: news002f1/b5/net.startrek/24: Cannot hard link to 
> 'news002f1/b5/net.sf-lovers/141': No such file or directory
> src/tar: news002f1/b5/net.startrek/38: Cannot hard link to 
> 'news002f1/b5/net.sf-lovers/161': No such file or directory
> ../src/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Perhaps it depends on the OS or filesystem?

I am using Linux 6.9.1 (x86_64) with an ext4 filesystem.

Regards,
Tristan

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