[issue8741] 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created
Sridhar Ratnakumar
report at bugs.python.org
Mon May 17 19:45:45 CEST 2010
New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com>:
Repro steps:
Download http://appropriatesoftware.net/provide/docs/eternity-0.13.tar.gz (via 'eternity' module in PyPI) and look at the following command line session:
C:\Temp\tfbug>python27 -c "import tarfile as T; T.open('eternity-0.13.tar.gz').extractall()"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2046, in extractall
self.extract(tarinfo, path)
File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2083, in extract
self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2168, in _extract_member
self.makelink(tarinfo, targetpath)
File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2260, in makelink
raise IOError("link could not be created")
IOError: link could not be created
C:\Temp\tfbug>python26 -c "import tarfile as T; T.open('eternity-0.13.tar.gz').extractall()"
C:\Temp\tfbug>dir eternity-0.13
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 1877-E6BA
Directory of C:\Temp\tfbug\eternity-0.13
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> .
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> ..
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 115 AUTHORS
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> bin
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 0 CHANGES
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 17,998 COPYING
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> etc
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 447 INSTALL
09/11/2008 06:06 PM 231 MANIFEST.in
10/14/2008 06:08 PM 802 PKG-INFO
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 516 README
09/10/2008 04:10 PM 2,948 setup.py
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> src
8 File(s) 23,057 bytes
5 Dir(s) 3,493,781,504 bytes free
C:\Temp\tfbug>
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components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 105920
nosy: lars.gustaebel, srid
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7
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