Re: [Bug-tar] possible extraction issue : file named '['

[Joerg Schilling]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > But there's a bigger question here.  I don't see where this behavior
> > of GNU tar is documented.  Perhaps I'm missing it, but I just don't
> > see it.
> > Also, this behavior is incompatible with traditional 'tar',
> > and (as your example shows) it makes it difficult to extract arbitrary
> > files by name from a tar image.
>
> Yes, you are right: it is not documented. As far as I can tell, you
> introduced this behaviour 9 years ago [1]. Unfortunately neither CVS,
> nor ChangeLog contain any description of the changes, so one cannot
> tell what was the reasoning behind them. The only fact is that GNU
> tar behaves this way since 1997 (I guess it was v. 1.12), so changing
> this behavior at once is not a good idea. Instead, I'd propose to
> introduce some transitional period so that the users be able to
> accomodate for the changes.

I would guess that this was caused by GNU tar developers getting in contact
with star and discovering that star did support a pat=patter option since at 
least 1992.

Jörg

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