Bug 4815 – restore cannot handle symbolic links.

Bug 4815 - restore cannot handle symbolic links.

Summary:	restore cannot handle symbolic links.

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 5923

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	dump (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported:	1999-08-31 20:14 EDT by osman
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-02-05 13:48:21 EST
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Description osman 1999-08-31 20:14:13 EDT

When you read back a dump containing symbolic links, you get
an error when useing it to restore:
The error says something about not being able to create the
named special file, it does however does it ok.

Comment 1 osman 1999-08-31 21:09:59 EDT

The error message is:
Create symbolic link [linkname]->[targetname]
extract special file [linkname]
restore: [linkname]: cannot create special file: Invalid argument

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-05 13:48:59 EST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5923 ***

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