43187 – untar does not create symlinks

Bug 43187 - untar does not create symlinks

Summary: untar does not create symlinks

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19252

Alias:	None

Product:	Ant
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core tasks (show other bugs)
Version:	1.7.0
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	P2 major with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Ant Notifications List

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Reported:	2007-08-22 08:58 UTC by Marius Scurtescu
Modified:	2008-09-04 06:26 UTC (History)
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Description Marius Scurtescu 2007-08-22 08:58:13 UTC

If you run an Ant script on an OS that supports symlinks and you untar an
archive that contains symlinks you would expect those links to be created
properly. Currently empty files will be created instead.

This is somewhat related to bug 40059.

Comment 1 Stefan Bodewig 2008-09-04 06:26:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19252 ***