Subject: Re: tar ignores filenames that contain `..'
To: Shin'ichiro TAYA <taya@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/23/2002 07:38:00 
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:10:19PM +0900, Shin'ichiro TAYA wrote:

 > After switching to pax based tar, tar ignores filenames that contain `..'.
 > But some distfile for pkgsrc contains symlinks that points to file
 > contain '..' then failes to extract.

Actually, I think the new GNU tar does this too.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>