[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

[Scott Leerssen]

New submission from Scott Leerssen <sleerssen at gmail.com>:

I'm opening this as a continuation of issue10761 since it was closed as fixed, and there's a bit more work to do there.

The fix for issue10761 was incomplete.  It did not handle the case where the symlink being overwritten did not resolve to another file (i.e. a "broken" link).  It also did not address the same issues with hard links.

The comments starting at http://bugs.python.org/issue10761#msg135924 detail the updates needed to complete this fix.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 136091
nosy: Scott.Leerssen
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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