[issue10761] tarfile.extractall fails to overwrite symlinks

[Scott Leerssen]

Scott Leerssen <sleerssen at gmail.com> added the comment:

It turns out that my fix was at least one byte short of complete.  If the target pathname is a broken symlink, os.path.exists() returns False, and the OSError is raised.  I should have used os.path.lexists().  Also, I believe the same problem exists for the hardlink case a few lines below.

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