On 08/08/2013 08:28 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > 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.
That's the point of the proposal - it allows one to unpack the tz database where all files are unpacked into a new directory rather than polluting the current directory, without over-nesting other tarballs that already unpack into a single directory, all by allowing the user to set up an alias to tar that turns on the new option. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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