From 561c8dd491a439fc4891aed43a794afd19df4e51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Kientzle Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:11:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] As pointed out recently on a GNU cpio mailing list, you can't hardlink device nodes. SVN-Revision: 1821 --- libarchive/archive_entry_link_resolver.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libarchive/archive_entry_link_resolver.c b/libarchive/archive_entry_link_resolver.c index ae2d2ab25..3b13e19c8 100644 --- a/libarchive/archive_entry_link_resolver.c +++ b/libarchive/archive_entry_link_resolver.c @@ -181,8 +181,10 @@ archive_entry_linkify(struct archive_entry_linkresolver *res, /* If it has only one link, then we're done. */ if (archive_entry_nlink(*e) == 1) return; - /* Directories never have hardlinks. */ - if (archive_entry_filetype(*e) == AE_IFDIR) + /* Directories, devices never have hardlinks. */ + if (archive_entry_filetype(*e) == AE_IFDIR + || archive_entry_filetype(*e) == AE_IFBLK + || archive_entry_filetype(*e) == AE_IFCHR) return; switch (res->strategy) { -- 2.47.3