control: tag -1 + confirmed upstream control: forward -1 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/740
Hi, Thanks for taking a look at libarchive and bsdtar for your tests! Well, I do understand your case, and I forwarded it to the upstream GitHub issue tracker. However, the fact remains that this behavior: - has been with libarchive since pretty much the very beginning, or at least the moment when it was broken out of FreeBSD as a standalone project, and - there are arguments in favor of the current behavior: in the common case multiple slashes are, at best, useless, and, at worst, harmful on, say, Windows with its //hostname/path network share syntax So let's see what the upstream authors say; in the worst case we may decide to carry this as a Debian-specific patch for the benefit of compatibility with GNU tar, but, to be honest, I see a couple of potential drawbacks with this approach, too; some might even mumble something about "gratuitous differences in behavior" and "POLA violations" when writing portable scripts using bsdtar :) Still, thanks for reporting this and for doing the path traversal tests at all! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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