Re: [Bug-tar] new feature suggestion

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Markus,

Markus Kuhn <address@hidden> wrote:

>  Would it be possible to add to GNU tar a new option
>   --max-cwd-additions=1
> that aborts the extraction of an archive with an error message if this
> extraction would create more than 1 file or subdirectory in the current
> working directory

That is an interesting idea. I'll think about it. By the way, what should
tar do before aborting? Should it delete the files it has already extracted?

Thank you.

-Sergey