Bug 52084 - create with --absolute-names, extract without -> hard links don't work
Summary: create with --absolute-names, extract without -> hard links don't work
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: tar
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-20 13:05 UTC by Jonathan Kamens
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-20 13:05:56 UTC
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fix the bug (660 bytes, patch)
2001-08-20 13:05 UTC, Jonathan Kamens
no flags Details | Diff

Description Jonathan Kamens 2001-08-20 13:05:27 UTC
If you create a tar archive with --absolute-names and then extract it
without that option, any hard links in the tar archive won't be created
properly.  I'll attach a patch.

Comment 1 Jonathan Kamens 2001-08-20 13:05:51 UTC
Created attachment 28434 [details]
fix the bug

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 13:13:31 UTC
Thanks, added in 1.13.19-8


Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-27 13:14:00 UTC
Typo. -6 of course.



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