[Bug-tar] The --remove-files switch interferes with hardlinking data

[Christopher Neufeld]

If "--remove-files" is supplied to tar, files which are hardlinked together
are not recorded as such in the archive.  Here is a sequence which
demonstrates this:

$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13

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$ echo "hi" > link1
$ ln link1 link2
$ tar cf links.tar link1 link2
$ tar tvf links.tar
-rw-r--r-- neufeld/users     3 2004-06-17 17:22 link1
-rw-r--r-- neufeld/users     0 2004-06-17 17:22 link2 link to link1
$ rm -f links.tar
$ tar cf links.tar --remove-files link1 link2
$ tar tvf links.tar
-rw-r--r-- neufeld/users     3 2004-06-17 17:22 link1
-rw-r--r-- neufeld/users     3 2004-06-17 17:22 link2
$


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