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-rw-r--r--Lib/tarfile.py7
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_tarfile.py21
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
3 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index d20107e..077fbee 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1294,6 +1294,10 @@ class TarFile(object):
else:
tarinfo = self.getmember(member)
+ # Prepare the link target for makelink().
+ if tarinfo.islnk():
+ tarinfo._link_target = os.path.join(path, tarinfo.linkname)
+
try:
self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
except EnvironmentError, e:
@@ -1466,7 +1470,8 @@ class TarFile(object):
if tarinfo.issym():
os.symlink(linkpath, targetpath)
else:
- os.link(linkpath, targetpath)
+ # See extract().
+ os.link(tarinfo._link_target, targetpath)
except AttributeError:
if tarinfo.issym():
linkpath = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(tarinfo.name),
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index bd3fd8e..52b6204 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -293,6 +293,24 @@ class WriteGNULongTest(unittest.TestCase):
self._test(("longnam/" * 127) + "longname_",
("longlnk/" * 127) + "longlink_")
+class ExtractHardlinkTest(BaseTest):
+
+ def test_hardlink(self):
+ """Test hardlink extraction (bug #857297)
+ """
+ # Prevent errors from being caught
+ self.tar.errorlevel = 1
+
+ self.tar.extract("0-REGTYPE", dirname())
+ try:
+ # Extract 1-LNKTYPE which is a hardlink to 0-REGTYPE
+ self.tar.extract("1-LNKTYPE", dirname())
+ except EnvironmentError, e:
+ import errno
+ if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+ self.fail("hardlink not extracted properly")
+
+
# Gzip TestCases
class ReadTestGzip(ReadTest):
comp = "gz"
@@ -337,6 +355,9 @@ def test_main():
WriteGNULongTest,
]
+ if hasattr(os, "link"):
+ tests.append(ExtractHardlinkTest)
+
if gzip:
tests.extend([
ReadTestGzip, ReadStreamTestGzip,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fd6d244..f679239 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ Extension modules
Library
-------
+- Bug #857297/Patch #916874. Fix an error when extracting a hard link
+ from a tarfile.
+
- Patch #846659. Fix an error in tarfile.py when using
GNU longname/longlink creation.