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

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

On 2024-05-28 04:52, Martin Simmons wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 27 May 2024 13:43:12 -0500, Tristan Miller said:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Also, your tar file contains hard links, not symlinks.

Yes, thanks for the correction.  It had been a long day. :)

Regards,
Tristan

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