Re: [Bug-tar] Using period-slash in member names

2014-01-17 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:21:34 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > what are the reasons to not take member name argument './file' and 'file' > > equivalently? So far I found only one point in documentation that it is > > essential because tar preserves filenames (2.7. How to L

Re: [Bug-tar] Using period-slash in member names

2014-01-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Hello, > > what are the reasons to not take member name argument './file' and 'file' > equivalently? So far I found only one point in documentation that it is > essential because tar preserves filenames (2.7. How to List Archives). Are you asking this because of a possibl

[Bug-tar] Using period-slash in member names

2014-01-17 Thread Pavel Raiskup
Hello, what are the reasons to not take member name argument './file' and 'file' equivalently? So far I found only one point in documentation that it is essential because tar preserves filenames (2.7. How to List Archives). Thanks, Pavel