On 10/18/11 02:26, Andries E. Brouwer wrote: > It would be nice if tar treated symlinks for just > what they are: small files that contain a filename, > and restored file and mode at the moment of extraction.
Tar used to do that, but it led to security holes. If you want the old behavior, use the -P option, but I suggest first reading the "Reliability and Security" part of the tar manual.
