[issue12841] Incorrect tarfile.py extraction

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

I understand.  Unit tests can work with file permissions, ownership and links, but they can’t create different filesystems or ask for superuser rights.  test_shutil contains a few tests that purport to test cross-filesystems usage but may or may not actually do it (#9999).

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