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Subject: tar: symlinks unpacked to empty files
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:50:41 -0500
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With tar-1.23-1 and recent snapshot:

echo foo > foo
ln -s $PWD/foo bar
tar cf test.tar bar foo
rm -f bar foo
tar xf test.tar
ls -l bar foo

You will see that 'bar' is a 0-byte file with 0000 permissions instead
of a symlink.  The symlink reference need not be absolute; it also
happens with relative links in different directories, but does not
happen if I just "ln -s foo bar".


Yaakov



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