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

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.


On 2024-05-27 13:32, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Perhaps it depends on the OS or filesystem?
>
> I don't think so. Are you using an unmodified version of tar? If not,
> can you try to compile it from sources?

Oh, looks like you're probably right about this.  It's only the tar 
packaged by openSUSE that has this problem; tar compiled from source 
emits the error message you described and does not hang.  I will report 
this issue to the openSUSE packagers.

Regards,
Tristan

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