New submission from Justin Bronder <jsbron...@gentoo.org>: When adding hardlinks to an archive, tarfile does not set the size of each additional link to zero as specified by the tar format [1].
In addition, the current test case hardlinks is also broken. Instead of testing that the size of a hardlink to a non-empty file is 0, it tests that the size to a empty file is zero, which cannot fail. A patch against current svn trunk is attached and was tested with 'python -m test.regrtest -v test_tarfile' 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC170 ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: python-2.7-tarfile-hardlinks.patch keywords: patch messages: 106612 nosy: jsbronder priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: tarfile: broken hardlink handling and testcase. type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17474/python-2.7-tarfile-hardlinks.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8833> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
