Tarfile extraction does not work on Windows

Using Python 3.10.5, there is a scenario where the extractall function of tarfile is causing an infinite loop for Python on Windows, but not in Linux.

The tar-file where the issue occurred was the one produced by docker export, where a file-system is saved as a tar file. Unfortunately, it is too big to upload here, so I will give some commands to get this file.

> docker create --name "testcontainer" tomcat
> docker export --output="testtomcat.tar" testcontainer

That should produce a file of about 457MB.

Now, using Python 3.10.5 under Windows, the following code-snippet will crash:

import tarfile
with tarfile.open("testtomcat.tar") as tarf:
     members_to_extract = [tar_info for tar_info in tarf.getmembers()
                                           if not tar_info.isdev()]
     tarf.extractall(path="/tmp/foo/", members=members_to_extract)

The error says: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Your environment

• CPython versions tested on: Python 3.10.5
• Operating system and architecture: Windows 11 is where it failed, and it works fine with the same python version in Arch Linux with kernel Linux 5.15.58-2-lts x86_64

Comienza con tarfile.extractall y el filtrado de members mostrado en el informe; después, reproduce el comportamiento en Windows usando los comandos docker create y docker export. Compara la extracción con la misma versión de Python en Linux. La tarea está terminada cuando el archivo tar exportado se pueda extraer en Windows sin el fallo por profundidad de recursión ni un bucle infinito.