[issue8741] 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created

[Lars Gustäbel]

Lars Gustäbel <lars at gustaebel.de> added the comment:

@senthil: Yes, this is a platform-specific problem. The code that is failing is in fact supposed to somehow "emulate" symlink and hardlink extraction on platforms that don't support these, e.g. Windows. What tarfile is trying to do here is to extract links as if they were regular files.

@sridhar: Thanks for the detailed report. I am currently working on the problem.

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