Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: [regression] tar mess up \ and \\ files

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

jOn Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 21:24:32 +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> > newer tar (1.27.1)has a serious regression compared to 1.27.
> 
> It's not a regression -- all tar versions back to 1.13 behaved
> exactly the same.

Just to be clear, version 1.27 did behave differently from the earlier
versions, and then 1.27.1 was released in order to change the behavior
back to match the earlier versions.

For the details: the topic was discussed here on this list last October
and November:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-10/msg00045.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-11/msg00002.html
, and in the 1.27.1 release notes:
  http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7792

                                                                Nathan
  

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