[Bug-tar] Bug report regarding the manual <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/absolute.html#SEC113>

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Hello, GNU-tar maintainers,

in the manual
<http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/absolute.html#SEC113>,
the solution to avoid absolute member names,

$ (cd / && tar -c -f archive.tar home)

is buggy:  The archive will be written to the directory "/", which is not
necessarily the case with

$ tar -c -f archive.tar /home

.

As the solution

$ tar -c -f archive.tar -C / home

(which is already in the manual) is correct, there is no need to
use the former one.

Could it please be deleted?

Thanks in advance,

Helmut
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