The issue is very easy to reproduce: mkdir -p r/libs/ r/prefs/
touch _manifest \ r/androidTrophy.dat \ r/libs/libAndroid.so \ r/InsTime \ r/prefs/gl_ver Put into list.txt : _manifest r/androidTrophy.dat r/libs/ r/libs/libAndroid.so r/InsTime r/prefs/ r/prefs/gl_ver tar -cvf myarchive.tar -T list.txt There are 2 hard links created, libAndroid.so and gl_ver
