Sergey Poznyakoff: > > really correct? It has been forwarded to me as a security fix for > > 1.18, but there it causes tar to hang when trying to extract any > > symlink from an archive. This can easily be confirmed by running > > the test suite. > > The test suite works for me. Any ways to reproduce?
Take tar 1.18, add the rev. 1.63/1.64 change to src/names.c, run make test. It will get stuck here: 19: extracting symlinks over an existing file (I should try a complete HEAD version checked out from CVS, but I haven't gotten around yet to setting up the environment the bootstrap script expects.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
