Fix dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option.

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8b55ece0a025cef8934c3482e52664fc7b3354f2..1d3541469d0cd212c7e0aceeaffaf9c004dc4576 100644 (file)
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-20
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-27
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ update of an archive:
 
 This did not work in previous versions, in spite of what the docs said.  
 
+** Fix dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option.
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 version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10