On Mon, 08 May 2017 12:36:19 +0300
Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hanno Böck <[email protected]> ha escrit:
> 
> > I'm not sure if anyone uses this feature any more,  
> 
> It is used regularly to access remote archives.

Okay, may very well be, although I never heard of it.

> On all existing distributions tar is configured so that it uses ssh
> instead of rsh.

That doesn't change the fact that this is extremely surprising behavior
that really shouldn't be default ("principle of least surprise").
To reemphasis this: It's not just that tar will do network connections,
it will do them based on the filename one tries to unpack.


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