Re: "tar cf x.tar /" creates bad tar file

[Paul Jarc]

Pozsar Balazs <address@hidden> wrote:
> a directory with the name "" (empty string) is stored in the
> archive.
...
> I do think, that this should be fixed at the creating stage, namely the
> '/' root directory should never be stored.

I think it would be better to simply call it ".".  Then for
extraction, it can be handled like any other directory that happens to
already exist.

Also, it might be good to make a similar change for extraction, to
handle old archives that were created with empty names.


paul