Re: [Bug-tar] Re: tar 1.15.90 released

[Helmut Waitzmann]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> writes:

>Matt McCutchen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Helmut.  If the first archive contains files whose names
>> look like tar options, the second tar will now interpret them as
>> options, which is not desired.
>
>There's nothing new here, you'd get the same behavior with tar 1.13.25
>(and even with 1.11) if any of your files happened to begin with -C.

You are right:

   $ tar --version
   tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1

   $ printf '%s\n' -C nothing | tar --files-from=- -c -f archive.tar
   tar: nothing: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
   tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

   $ printf '%s\0' -C nothing | tar --files-from=- -c -f archive.tar --null
   tar: -C: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
   tar: nothing: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
   tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Will this behavior stay the same with new gnu tar, too?
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