[BusyBox] hardlinks broken in tar

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Thu Aug 14 12:55:30 UTC 2003


On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:09:29 +1000
Glenn McGrath <bug1 at optushome.com.au> wrote:

> For some reason i thought the tar hardlink problem only effected old
> GNU compatability mode, but its broken in normal mode.

Ive fixed the problem now, hardlinks in tar for both normal and compat
mode are handled in the same way as cpio. i.e. a hardlink is an entry
with size 0, and link name, and its not a symlink.


Glenn



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