[Bug-tar] [PATCH] maint: display $RSH variable in ./configure --help

2013-05-30 Thread Pavel Raiskup
* configure.ac: Use AC_ARG_VAR([RSH],[...]). --- configure.ac | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 3303c53..a4e2301 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ AC_CHECK_DECLS([time],,, [#include time.h])

[Bug-tar] symlink-eating bug: the reproducer

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hello. There's an old bugreport in Debian about symlink-eating behavour of tar, which were considered unreproducible for quite some time -- http://bugs.debian.org/452365 . Recently I managed to hit this bug too, and after some tries created a reproducer from my files. I attached the reproducer

[Bug-tar] symlink-eating bug: the reproducer

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hello. There's an old bugreport in Debian about symlink-eating behavour of tar, which were considered unreproducible for quite some time -- http://bugs.debian.org/452365 . Recently I managed to hit this bug too, and after some tries created a reproducer from my files. I attached the reproducer

[Bug-tar] symlink-eating bug: the reproducer

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hello. There's an old bugreport in Debian about symlink-eating behavour of tar, which were considered unreproducible for quite some time -- http://bugs.debian.org/452365 . Recently I managed to hit this bug too, and after some tries created a reproducer from my files. I attached the reproducer

Re: [Bug-tar] symlink-eating bug: the reproducer

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Tokarev
I'm sorry for TRIPLE (!) post. Since I got no usual reply from mailman (telling me my post awaits moderator action), I went off and subscribed to the list, and resent, because I thought that because of spam volume the non-subscriber posts are just deleted (it is often the case in various places

Re: [Bug-tar] symlink-eating bug: the reproducer

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks, I just now reproduced the problem with tar 1.26 but could not reproduce it with the latest git version. this appears to be similar to this bug: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2011-06/msg0.html which was fixed in tar upstream, here: