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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks |
Date: | Sun, 18 Jan 2015 08:04:25 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 |
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
But when the tarball is extracted, two files with same inode are created, which is kind of unexpected behaviour - at least for me
Other utilities have similar behavior (e.g., ls, cp, du), in that they pretend the symlink isn't there and behave as if the pointed-to inode is there directly. Tar's current behavior is compatible with these other utilities, whereas its old behavior was incompatible.
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