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-rw-r--r--Lib/tarfile.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_tarfile.py3
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/testtar.tarbin427008 -> 435200 bytes
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
4 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index af32b0f..f26953e 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2496,7 +2496,7 @@ class TarFile(object):
"""
if tarinfo.issym():
# Always search the entire archive.
- linkname = os.path.dirname(tarinfo.name) + "/" + tarinfo.linkname
+ linkname = "/".join(filter(None, (os.path.dirname(tarinfo.name), tarinfo.linkname)))
limit = None
else:
# Search the archive before the link, because a hard link is
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 1757e44..f32eb8c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ class UstarReadTest(ReadTest):
def test_fileobj_symlink2(self):
self._test_fileobj_link("./ustar/linktest2/symtype", "ustar/linktest1/regtype")
+ def test_issue14160(self):
+ self._test_fileobj_link("symtype2", "ustar/regtype")
+
class CommonReadTest(ReadTest):
diff --git a/Lib/test/testtar.tar b/Lib/test/testtar.tar
index b932104..bb93453 100644
--- a/Lib/test/testtar.tar
+++ b/Lib/test/testtar.tar
Binary files differ
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2d58cb6..08254d4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
+ the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
+
- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
were missing, instead of raising an error.