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tar 1.13.19: create with --absolute-names, extract without -> hard lin
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Jonathan Kamens |
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tar 1.13.19: create with --absolute-names, extract without -> hard links won't work |
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:15:13 -0400 |
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. A patch is below.
--- tar-1.13.19/src/extract.c~ Sat Jan 13 00:59:29 2001
+++ tar-1.13.19/src/extract.c Mon Aug 20 08:50:49 2001
@@ -932,10 +932,19 @@
{
struct stat st1, st2;
int e;
+ size_t skiplinkcrud;
+
+ if (absolute_names_option)
+ skiplinkcrud = 0;
+ else {
+ skiplinkcrud = FILESYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (current_link_name);
+ while (ISSLASH (current_link_name[skiplinkcrud]))
+ skiplinkcrud++;
+ }
/* MSDOS does not implement links. However, djgpp's link() actually
copies the file. */
- status = link (current_link_name, CURRENT_FILE_NAME);
+ status = link (current_link_name + skiplinkcrud, CURRENT_FILE_NAME);
if (status == 0)
break;
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