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tar-untar-buffer doesn't support symlinks

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 25220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25220: tar-untar-buffer doesn't support symlinks
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:11:27 +0200

npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net writes:

> Severity: wishlist
>
> tar-untar-buffer silently converts symlinks into regular files.  There
> might be some portability trouble with supporting them, but at least we
> should warn about low fidelity unpacking, as in the patch below.
>
> This initially turned up as a yasnippet bug, because the package's
> tarball was using symlinks.  Of course that has to be fixed by avoiding
> symlinks (https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet/issues/748).

It looks like this patch was applied at the time, but the bug report
wasn't closed, so I'm doing that now.

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