Heiko Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > in this case your statement seems wrong because my "UNIX" forbids > some characters.
I think he was talking about the original Unix. It sounds reasonable for tar, as an option, to mangle file names that aren't retrievable due to OS limitations. But that is a feature request, not a bug. I doubt whether unusable names should be mangled by default, as that would be a pretty big change to common practice. In POSIX-conforming systems the issue comes up only with file names that contain NUL bytes, or which end in '/' even though the files are not directories. This could be addressed by the same feature-enhancement, I suppose. There is a similar issue with file name components that are too long, and it also could be handled by mangling file names (I guess with the same user option). _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
