Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] add --ignore-missing to ignore missing input files

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/22/2012 04:54 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> libfind is in use since 6 years in OSS 
> projects and nobody did so far complain

GNU tar has been in use far longer than that,
and nobody ever complained about its security holes
in this area, before I fixed them.  That's a problem
with security holes: the people most likely to find them
are the people least likely to complain about them.