[issue8741] 2.7 regression in tarfile: IOError: link could not be created

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

Aside: why is the original exception ignored, and instead a generic IOError is thrown? Why not use one of the exceptions inheriting `TarError`, so that application code can reliably catch these errors?

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