[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

2011-05-16 Thread Scott Leerssen
New submission from Scott Leerssen sleers...@gmail.com: I'm opening this as a continuation of issue10761 since it was closed as fixed, and there's a bit more work to do there. The fix for issue10761 was incomplete. It did not handle the case where the symlink being overwritten did not

[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

2011-05-16 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran sent...@uthcode.com added the comment: I looked at your message and the patch, seems okay for the case of testing if the symlink is broken and performing the next steps. I shall commit it soon. -- assignee: - orsenthil nosy: +orsenthil

[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

2011-05-16 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot devnull@devnull added the comment: New changeset b29f0b6fcb76 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Fix closes issue #12088 - fixes the tarfile.extractall issue when the http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b29f0b6fcb76 -- nosy: +python-dev

[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

2011-05-16 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran sent...@uthcode.com added the comment: Committed the fix. Thank you, Scott. -- resolution: - fixed stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue12088