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. -- Hanno Böck https://hboeck.de/ mail/jabber: [email protected] GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42
