On Wednesday 25 of March 2015 13:31:12 Paul Eggert wrote: > Yes, it's a problem if you give 'tar' an infinite tree, because tar > tries very hard to dump the whole thing, and having it check for loops > would slow it down. The simplest workaround I can think of is to not > use -h unless you know the tree is finite. > > Perhaps you could write a patch to have tar check for loops when the -h > option is given? It could use the hash-table code already in there.
I believe this is the same issue we discussed some time ago: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04542.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-07/msg00013.html Pavel
