commit 2ee9c6fa506595fd296879823f0b445f0aec26ce
author Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> Thu Jun 03 09:56:22 2010 +0000
committer Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> Thu Jun 03 09:56:22 2010 +0000
tree 0a9a0fbbf5f071cc0783c9212655b28ad3d5ddc7
parent 593e4ca7a5300752c1fe595c22caa859b7fcd5fb

Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size
field != 0 by mistake. The associated testcase did not
expose this bug because it was broken too.

Lib/tarfile.py

diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 4b03c28..a54b3b8 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@
         tarinfo.mode = stmd
         tarinfo.uid = statres.st_uid
         tarinfo.gid = statres.st_gid
-        if stat.S_ISREG(stmd):
+        if type == REGTYPE:
             tarinfo.size = statres.st_size
         else:
             tarinfo.size = 0L