[BusyBox 0001509]: tar does not remove leading / from hard link target
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Mon Sep 24 18:44:08 UTC 2007
A NOTE has been added to this issue.
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=1509
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Reported By: Dwight Engen
Assigned To: BusyBox
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Project: BusyBox
Issue ID: 1509
Category: Other
Reproducibility: always
Severity: minor
Priority: normal
Status: assigned
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Date Submitted: 09-24-2007 06:54 PDT
Last Modified: 09-24-2007 11:44 PDT
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Summary: tar does not remove leading / from hard link target
Description:
Since busybox tar does not strip the leading slash when saving a hard link,
attempting to restore a tar with hard links in it on a mounted volume
results in EXDEV from link(2). A patch is provided which fixes the
problem.
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vda - 09-24-07 11:44
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In an empty directory with busybox's executable only:
$ ln busybox busybox_z
$ ./busybox tar cf ../z.tar *
$ mkdir z; cd z
$ ../busybox tar xf ../../z.tar
$ ls -li
total 1528
7340110 -rwxr-xr-x 2 vda eng 775788 Sep 24 19:28 busybox
7340110 -rwxr-xr-x 2 vda eng 775788 Sep 24 19:28 busybox_z
Please provide a testcase where it fails.
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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09-24-07 06:54 Dwight Engen New Issue
09-24-07 06:54 Dwight Engen Status new => assigned
09-24-07 06:54 Dwight Engen Assigned To => BusyBox
09-24-07 06:54 Dwight Engen File Added: tar.patch
09-24-07 11:44 vda Note Added: 0002792
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