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bug#25220: tar-untar-buffer doesn't support symlinks
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#25220: tar-untar-buffer doesn't support symlinks |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:11:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:
> Severity: wishlist
>
> tar-untar-buffer silently converts symlinks into regular files. There
> might be some portability trouble with supporting them, but at least we
> should warn about low fidelity unpacking, as in the patch below.
>
> This initially turned up as a yasnippet bug, because the package's
> tarball was using symlinks. Of course that has to be fixed by avoiding
> symlinks (https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet/issues/748).
It looks like this patch was applied at the time, but the bug report
wasn't closed, so I'm doing that now.
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