[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Committed the fix. Thank you, Scott. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset b29f0b6fcb76 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Fix closes issue #12088 - fixes the tarfile.extractall issue when the http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b29f0b6fcb76 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python track

[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I looked at your message and the patch, seems okay for the case of testing if the symlink is broken and performing the next steps. I shall commit it soon. -- assignee: -> orsenthil nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python trac

[issue12088] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite unresolved symlinks and hard links

New submission from Scott Leerssen : I'm opening this as a continuation of issue10761 since it was closed as fixed, and there's a bit more work to do there. The fix for issue10761 was incomplete. It did not handle the case where the symlink being overwritten did not resolve to another file (i