Dear tar, To reproduce the bug, enter these shell commands
================== test -e a && echo "\"a\" already exists" test -e a && exit set -e -x echo "creating test data..." mkdir a touch a/x ln -s x a/y ln a/y a/z echo "creating test archive..." tar cf a.tar a echo "comaparing: " tar vdf a.tar echo "replacing a hardlink: " rm a/z ln -s x a/z echo "comaparing: " tar vdf a.tar ================== I get a/y: Not linked to a/y which is evidently incorrect. $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.29 Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. (Fedora 26 x86_64) C.S. -- Cezary Sliwa Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences al. Lotnikow 32/46, PL 02-668 Warszawa, POLAND
