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Re: Bug?


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Bug?
Date: 25 Feb 2003 16:01:26 -0800
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Anthony Tuininga <address@hidden> writes:

> It would seem to me that the restoration of symbolic links is postponed
> until the end of the process. Is that true?

Yes.  This is for security reasons.

> And is there any better way of handling the restoration of symbolic
> links in the case of an interruption?

Yes, tar should probably catch the signal and restore the symlinks
at that point.




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