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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] --one-top-level: avoid a heap-buffer-overflow
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] --one-top-level: avoid a heap-buffer-overflow |
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Sun, 8 Apr 2018 12:34:40 -0700 |
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 1:53 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
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> I see what you mean. So how would you like a NAME of "a.tar.tar" to be
> treated? Seems wrong to remove the second .tar suffix. How about this
> change, to make it remove ".tar" only if the just-stripped suffix is
> not also ".tar"?
After writing that, I realized that perhaps we should treat a name
like "foo.tar.tgz" (whose final suffix begins with ".t") like
"foo.tar.tar", i.e., in preserving the nested ".tar" component. WDYT?