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bin/41168: tar treats lines in files supplied to -X as globs



>Number:         41168
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       tar treats lines in files supplied to -X as globs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 07 20:10:00 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Perry E. Metzger
>Release:        NetBSD 4.99.28
>Organization:
Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost
>Environment:
        
        
System: NetBSD snark.cb.piermont.com 4.99.28 NetBSD 4.99.28 (ZWEI) #0: Sun Aug 
12 13:52:43 EDT 2007 
perry%snark.piermont.com@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/ZWEI amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:

tar (which is really a front end to pax) treats the lines supplied for
the -X option as globs rather than as plain filenames. This can lead
to painfully unexpected behavior. The documented behavior (and the
behavior for gnu tar) is to treat these lines as filenames.

>How-To-Repeat:
        
>Fix:
        

>Unformatted:
        
        


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