Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 08:04:25 -0800

Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> But when the tarball is extracted, two files with same inode are created, which
> is kind of unexpected behaviour - at least for me

Other utilities have similar behavior (e.g., ls, cp, du), in that they pretend 
the symlink isn't there and behave as if the pointed-to inode is there directly. 
  Tar's current behavior is compatible with these other utilities, whereas its 
old behavior was incompatible.