[issue8833] tarfile: broken hardlink handling and testcase.

Lars Gustäbel added the comment: Thank you very much for this valuable report. Fixed in r81663-81666. -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed versions: +Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue8833] tarfile: broken hardlink handling and testcase.

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[issue8833] tarfile: broken hardlink handling and testcase.

New submission from Justin Bronder : When adding hardlinks to an archive, tarfile does not set the size of each additional link to zero as specified by the tar format [1]. In addition, the current test case hardlinks is also broken. Instead of testing that the size of a hardlink to a non-empty f