GNU bug report logs - #19616
dist tarball contains hardlinks

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis <at> gmx.net>
Cc: bug-automake <at> gnu.org, bug-tar <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks
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.

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