By default tar strips leading '/'s from file names. However
if we have a symlink inside an archive with link which starts
with '/' then this slash will be removed. [1]
This will result as error "Cannot open:Permission denied" [2]
when tar tries to create the symlink with the invalid target
path.
On 05/08/17 20:23, Radostin Stoyanov wrote:
> By default tar strips leading '/'s from file names. However
> if we have a symlink inside an archive with link which starts
> with '/' then this slash will be removed. [1]
>
> This will result as error "Cannot open:Permission denied" [2]
> when tar tr
