Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > It looks like a bug when extracting broken symlinks that point to > destinations outside the tar'd directory:
It looks, indeed. However, I failed to reproduce it with the CVS version. Here's what I did: $ pwd /tmp/tar $ ln -s ../nowhere broken $ tar cf bad.tar broken $ ls ../nowhere * ls: ../nowhere: No such file or directory bad.tar broken $ tar xvpf bad.tar broken $ ls ../nowhere * /usr/bin/ls: ../nowhere: No such file or directory bad.tar broken Did I miss something? Regards, Sergey
