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Repro steps:
Download http://appropriatesoftware.net/provide/docs/eternity-0.13.tar.gz (via 'eternity' module in PyPI) and look at the following command line session:
C:\Temp\tfbug>python27 -c "import tarfile as T; T.open('eternity-0.13.tar.gz').extractall()"
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
 File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2046, in extractall
 self.extract(tarinfo, path)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2083, in extract
 self._extract_member(tarinfo, os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name))
 File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2168, in _extract_member
 self.makelink(tarinfo, targetpath)
 File "C:\Python27\lib\tarfile.py", line 2260, in makelink
 raise IOError("link could not be created")
IOError: link could not be created
C:\Temp\tfbug>python26 -c "import tarfile as T; T.open('eternity-0.13.tar.gz').extractall()"
C:\Temp\tfbug>dir eternity-0.13
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 1877-E6BA
 Directory of C:\Temp\tfbug\eternity-0.13
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> .
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> ..
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 115 AUTHORS
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> bin
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 0 CHANGES
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 17,998 COPYING
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> etc
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 447 INSTALL
09/11/2008 06:06 PM 231 MANIFEST.in
10/14/2008 06:08 PM 802 PKG-INFO
09/05/2008 01:31 PM 516 README
09/10/2008 04:10 PM 2,948 setup.py
10/14/2008 06:08 PM <DIR> src
 8 File(s) 23,057 bytes
 5 Dir(s) 3,493,781,504 bytes free
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