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Lars Gustäbel wrote: > Suppose we have: > foo -> /etc > foo/passwd > > If creation of the foo symlink is delayed, foo/passwd will be > extracted in a directory foo which will be created implicitly. > If we create the foo symlink afterwards it will fail because foo > already exists. The best way would be to completely ignore > members and link targets that are absolute or outside the > archive's scope. GNU tar doesn't descend into symlinked directories when extracting, such archive fails anyway: # tar xvf foo.tar foo foo/passwd tar: foo/passwd: Cannot open: Not a directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I think that is the simplest solution, but i'm not sure how to best implement that in extractall(). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG0wyUjBrWA+AvBr8RAjkJAKCJS+hkV1HYL9egOsyeTE5vj44r5ACeNmt7 HquYw+ON+5qVNoC778OtQRE= =9Kx/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
