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Author mvo
Recipients mvo
Date 2015-01-13.08:55:01
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Message-id <1421139302.16.0.710158118765.issue23228@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The tarfile.makelink() code crashes with a maximum recursion error when it unpacks a tarfile that contains a symlink into a directory that already contains this symlink.

Attached is a standalone testcase (that probably better explains whats going on :) and a possible fix.
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2015-01-13 08:55:02mvosetrecipients: + mvo
2015-01-13 08:55:02mvosetmessageid: <1421139302.16.0.710158118765.issue23228@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-01-13 08:55:02mvolinkissue23228 messages
2015-01-13 08:55:01mvocreate