New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>: Repro steps:
Download http://appropriatesoftware.net/provide/docs/eternity-0.13.tar.gz (via 'eternity' module in PyPI) and look at the following command line session: C:\Temp\tfbug>python27 -c "import tarfile as T; T.open('eternity-0.13.tar.gz').extractall()" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2046, in extractall self.extract(tarinfo, path) File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2083, in extract self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name)) File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2168, in _extract_member self.makelink(tarinfo, targetpath) File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2260, in makelink raise IOError("link could not be created") IOError: link could not be created C:\Temp\tfbug>python26 -c "import tarfile as T; T.open('eternity-0.13.tar.gz').extractall()" C:\Temp\tfbug>dir eternity-0.13 Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 1877-E6BA Directory of C:\Temp\tfbug\eternity-0.13 10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> . 10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> .. 09/05/2008 01:31 PM 115 AUTHORS 10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> bin 09/05/2008 01:31 PM 0 CHANGES 09/05/2008 01:31 PM 17,998 COPYING 10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> etc 09/05/2008 01:31 PM 447 INSTALL 09/11/2008 06:06 PM 231 MANIFEST.in 10/14/2008 06:08 PM 802 PKG-INFO 09/05/2008 01:31 PM 516 README 09/10/2008 04:10 PM 2,948 setup.py 10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> src 8 File(s) 23,057 bytes 5 Dir(s) 3,493,781,504 bytes free C:\Temp\tfbug> ---------- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 105920 nosy: lars.gustaebel, srid priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created type: crash versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8741> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
