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tar extraction behavior concerning symlinks
From: |
Andy Grover |
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tar extraction behavior concerning symlinks |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:59:45 -0700 |
Hi,
tar behaves strangely wrt symlinks. It overwrites them, instead of
following them. I had originally filed a bug report with RedHat, please
see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10641.
If this is the correct POSIX behavior, then the documentation at
http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_mono/tar.html#SEC62 needs to be
updated to reflect this.
(I personally liked the old way this worked, but who am I to argue with
POSIX? ;-)
Thanks -- Regards -- Andy
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