Patch #1168594: set sizes of non-regular files to zero. Fixes #1167128.
Will backport to 2.4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 75a21b7..a9abb77 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@
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+- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
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 - Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
   functionality.