On 08/08/2013 07:10 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Except as a new option that requires no argument, it is easy to modify > the user's login scripts to set up an alias around tar, so that the > option is ALWAYS supplied in the user's given interactive environment, > where it does the right thing for both tarbombs and normal tar files > with all contents in a single directory.
I don't know, that sounds a bit intrusive. Many tar files don't follow these new rules. The tz database, for example.