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bpo-12800: 'tarfile.StreamError: seeking backwards is not allowed' when extract symlink#20972

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@catlee catlee commented Jun 18, 2020

This is addressing the review comments in #13217

https://bugs.python.org/issue12800

websurfer5 and others added 3 commits June 18, 2020 18:07
module in stream mode ('r|') fails with an exception when a file
or symlink of the same name already exists. The fix is to remove
the existing file or symlink before extraction. Tests are included.
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JulienPalard commented Jul 9, 2020

I'm not a fan of using open to create a file, what about using pathlib?

Also why tar.extractall(path=support.SAVEDCWD)? It will extract to the cpython root, out of the temporary directory, so it won't get cleaned afterwards.

For readability maybe rename source to regular_file, and link to symlink.

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Oh, @catlee, took more time to look at it, I started suspecting strange thing while spotting the exact same test already existing in the file. See my comment in bpo.

I opened a much simpler PR #21409 restoring the original test instead of writing new ones.

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Good catch @JulienPalard!

Thanks for the PR, @catlee, but I'm closing this in favor of PR GH-21409.

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