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Re: [Bug-tar] extracting broken symlinks


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] extracting broken symlinks
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:53:27 +0300

Eric Blake <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> It looks like a bug when extracting broken symlinks that point to
> destinations outside the tar'd directory:

It looks, indeed. However, I failed to reproduce it with the CVS
version. Here's what I did:

$ pwd
/tmp/tar
$ ln -s ../nowhere broken
$ tar cf bad.tar broken
$ ls ../nowhere *
ls: ../nowhere: No such file or directory
bad.tar  broken
$ tar xvpf bad.tar
broken
$ ls ../nowhere *
/usr/bin/ls: ../nowhere: No such file or directory
bad.tar  broken

Did I miss something?

Regards,
Sergey





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