Re: [Bug-tar] GNUTYPE_NAMES dangerous

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Kees Cook <address@hidden> wrote:

> I proposed a patch there to disable GNUTYPE_NAMES handling by default, 
> adding an option "--allow-name-mangling" to re-enable it.  Since 
> GNUTYPE_NAMES can't be created by tar any more, and it doesn't seem 
> designed to allow for symlink creation delay, this seemed like a 
> sensible solution.  
> 
> Thoughts on this?

Well, I was going to remove the mangle.c from the next release anyway.

Regards,
Sergey