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TAR previews silently omitted type 1 hard links. A standard archive containing original.txt (hello world) and alias.txt linking to it showed only the original, although Python's tarfile reads both. This is a small, focused fix for an obvious parser bug under CONTRIBUTING.md's exception; it adds no archive workflow.

Resolve links to earlier archive members, including chains and PAX/GNU link names. Aliases share the target bytes and report their actual size. Missing, forward, cyclic, or directory targets now produce a clear error instead of silently disappearing. Non-file replacements invalidate earlier bytes, including directory names ending in a slash. Empty PAX linkpath overrides are retained and rejected instead of falling back to a different target. ZIP loading and TAR payload retention are unchanged.

Validation:

• Extended the existing real-worker browser regression: failed before (aliases missing), passed after. Covers link contents/sizes, chains, target-name overrides, replacement of the original, empty local/global PAX link targets, and invalid targets.
• Real-app web scenario: fails on base fd9b2c3eaa because the alias is absent; passes on b636078728, including opening the alias and reading hello world. Those captures cover the normal hard-link flow; additional real-worker regressions reject targets subsequently replaced by symlinks or directories.
• vp run check:changed --concurrency 1 passes, including all 132 tests in the affected browser test file. The added symlink/directory replacement cases each failed before their guard fix and passed afterward (vp test run apps/web/src/components/files/AttachmentFilePreview.browser.test.tsx -t "preserves length-delimited").

Before: alias omitted	After: both entries

Proof notes and runnable local scenario. The proof runner was copied locally from scenarios:prove with --target web added; the scenario stays out of this PR.

Reviewed with review-loop: 1 round with Claude Opus 5.5 on high. Reviewer verdict: approved. Subsequent small target-handling fixes address CodeRabbit findings and have failing-before/passing-after worker coverage.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at d9152b6

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — TAR previews now display hard-linked files using bytes already present in the archive. The change stays within bounded browser-worker preview processing and does not extract files or alter stored data.

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Walkthrough

The TAR preview parser now reads GNU and PAX link targets and resolves hard links that refer to earlier files. Browser tests cover supported link forms and invalid targets.

Changes: TAR hard-link parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Read TAR link metadata apps/web/src/components/files/binaryPreview.worker.ts	The parser tracks GNU long-link records and reads PAX linkpath attributes.
Resolve and test hard links apps/web/src/components/files/binaryPreview.worker.ts, apps/web/src/components/files/AttachmentFilePreview.browser.test.tsx	Hard links to earlier files reuse their bytes and size. Directory entries remove stored file data at their exact and slash-trimmed paths. Unsupported entries remove stored data at their path. Browser tests cover supported link forms and invalid targets.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 20753

Archive previews now show TAR hard links. A link whose target name is written differently from the stored member name, such as with a leading ./, may be omitted from the listing. This is a narrow gap and does not block the rest of the preview.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(web): show TAR hard links in archive previews" names the main change: the archive preview now lists TAR type 1 hard links. The raw summary confirms hard-link handling in binaryPreview.w…
Description check		The description covers the problem (type 1 hard links omitted from TAR previews, with a reproduction case), the change (link resolution to earlier members, chains, PAX/GNU names, and error handling fo…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title "fix(web): show TAR hard links in archive previews" names the main change: the archive preview now lists TAR type 1 hard links. The raw summary confirms hard-link handling in binaryPreview.worker.ts and the browser tests in AttachmentFilePreview.browser.test.tsx. It follows the conventional commit format the template recommends.

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Explanation

The description covers the problem (type 1 hard links omitted from TAR previews, with a reproduction case), the change (link resolution to earlier members, chains, PAX/GNU names, and error handling for missing, forward, cyclic, or directory targets), and the verification (regression test results, a real-app scenario, and before/after screenshots). The Scope section cites CONTRIBUTING.md's exception for small obvious bug fixes, but does not link an issue. The description also ends with a model and harness line, as the template asks. Its Verification section is detailed and reports observed results.

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apps/web/src/components/files/binaryPreview.worker.ts-79-79: 1

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Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Preserve empty PAX linkpath overrides.

If a local or global PAX record sets linkpath to an empty value, the parser falls back to longLink or the header. The empty value deletes the header field, so this can resolve a link to the wrong file instead of rejecting it. Preserve the tombstone and do not use the deleted field. (open-std.org)

Based on learnings: “an empty value in a global PAX record is a meaningful ‘tombstone’ override.”

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/files/binaryPreview.worker.ts:
- Line 137: Update the binary preview listing so each path contributes only its
latest entry, matching the bytes returned when that path is opened. Locate the
listing logic around the `linked?.length ?? size` size calculation and preserve
the latest entry’s size when paths are replaced.
- Line 125: Update the archive entry handling branch to delete the path from
`files` when an entry is a symlink, so a prior regular-file value cannot be
reused by a later hard link. Add the regular-file-then-symlink-then-hard-link
sequence to the invalid-target test cases and verify the target is rejected.
- Line 141: Update the directory-entry handling in the binary preview worker so
a directory with a trailing slash invalidates both its raw path and its
trailing-slash-free name in the files map. Add a regression case where a file
named “folder” is followed by a directory named “folder/”, and verify that a
hard link to “folder” cannot resolve the old file bytes.

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- Line 118: Preserve explicit empty global PAX linkpath values as tombstones so
target selection does not fall back to the physical header when the attribute is
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🤖 GPT-6.1 Sol responding on behalf of voltcrash

Verified and fixed the additional empty-PAX-linkpath finding from the review summary in cd5aa74. An empty override now suppresses the header/GNU target and produces the existing unavailable-target error. Both local and global PAX cases are covered in the real-worker regression, which failed before the fix and passes afterward; check:changed also passes all 132 affected browser tests.

Python's tarfile rejects both fixtures with an empty link name, consistent with the deletion semantics in the POSIX pax specification. Other PAX attributes are unchanged.

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- Line 130: Update hard-link resolution in the archive parser to use normalized
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Resolve equivalent archive-relative target names.

If an earlier regular member is named ./original.txt and a hard link targets original.txt, files.has(linkpath) returns false. The parser silently omits the alias even though the target exists. CPython's TAR implementation normalizes both names for this lookup. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Use consistent normalized keys for target resolution and replacement tracking. Keep displayed paths unchanged. Extend the existing real-worker fixture with this case.

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/files/binaryPreview.worker.ts at line 130:
Update hard-link resolution in the archive parser to use normalized archive-relative keys consistently for target lookup and replacement tracking, while leaving displayed paths unchanged. Extend the existing real-worker fixture to cover a member named ./original.txt targeted as original.txt.

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Evidence

Open the synthetic POSIX ustar archive through right panel → Files → archive.tar, then maximize the preview. The archive contains original.txt ('hello world', 11 bytes) and its hard-linked alias.txt. Environment on both sides: real web client, Chromium 156/Linux, 1280×800, light theme, fresh database and identical fixture.

Proven: base silently omits alias.txt; head lists both members and opens either to the same contents. scenarios:prove exited 0.

Evidence	Before — 4d47d0b76e	After — 207533163f
Archive members
Hard-link contents	Alias absent
Original contents	Scenario stops at missing alias
Recording, trimmed archive flow at 0.25× speed	Before recording	After recording

Scenario and synthetic TAR generator

The UI rounds both eleven-byte members to '1 KB'; exact byte-size presentation is not demonstrated.

Not shown:

• Unsupported or unavailable hard-link target errors were not exercised; this scenario covers the reported valid-target reproduction.
• Exact 11-byte size presentation cannot be shown because the UI rounds small sizes to 1 KB.
• GNU-format TAR was not exercised; the fixture uses POSIX ustar as reported.