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bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 08:04:25 -0800
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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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