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Re: [Bug-tar] extracting broken symlinks
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Bug-tar] extracting broken symlinks |
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Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:11:15 -0600 |
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According to Eric Blake on 8/24/2007 6:46 AM:
>> Did I miss something?
>
> I'm still seeing it on cygwin with CVS tar, so at this point, I'm
> suspecting cygwin instead.
Found it. Cygwin 1.5.24 and earlier violate POSIX, because
open("broken_symlink", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,0) mistakenly creates the
target of broken_symlink. This was in tar's create_placeholder_file. No
need for tar to do anything about this cygwin-specific bug.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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