[Bug-tar] Bug in tar version 1.23

[Hans Streibel]

There is a bug in tar, version 1.23
(to be more precise: I tested tar from the Debian package tar_1.23-1_i386.deb).

If extracting files and the -k (--keep-old-files) option is given
and we are about to extract a symbolic that already exists
then tar hangs up.

This is the situation:

address@hidden:/tmp$ ls -l foo*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hstreibe hstreibe 0 Jun  8 20:44 foo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hstreibe hstreibe 3 Jun  8 20:44 foo-link -> foo
address@hidden:/tmp$ tar cf foo.tar foo foo-link
address@hidden:/tmp$ tar xkvf foo.tar
foo
foo-link

Nothing more. tar hangs indefinitively.

Hans