tar upset with "." soft links

4 Sep 2001

      Running 7.2
...
From examining my backup logs I've noticed that tar gets quit upset when
coming across softlinks that point to ".".   Actually, I can't see the
reason why anyone would create a soft link that points to "." and assume it
must be a mistake, but these files do exist.  For example:
/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/sdb  ->  .

tar(1) resolves the link to the current directory, then traverses the
symlink again, and then resolves to CWD again, etc, etc, etc.  The log shows
the file as:

		/usr/share/doc/sdb/en/sdb/sdb/sdb/sdb/sdb/ ... and so on

So beware of this one folks.

John

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