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in --read-special mode, follow symlinks, fixes #1215

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Thomas Waldmann 2016-06-28 18:49:51 +02:00
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@ -256,7 +256,15 @@ class Archiver:
return
try:
st = os.lstat(path)
# usually, do not follow symlinks (if we have a symlink, we want to
# backup it as such).
# but if we are in --read-special mode, we later process <path> as
# a regular file (we open and read the symlink target file's content).
# thus, in read_special mode, we also want to stat the symlink target
# file, for consistency. if we did not, we also have issues extracting
# this file, as it would be in the archive as a symlink, not as the
# target's file type (which could be e.g. a block device).
st = os.stat(path, follow_symlinks=read_special)
except OSError as e:
self.print_warning('%s: %s', path, e)
return