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Re: [Bug-tar] RFC on tarbomb patch
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] RFC on tarbomb patch |
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Sat, 14 Sep 2013 11:30:40 -0500 |
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I looked at that patch, and although it's moving in
the right direction, it's not yet ready for prime-time.
One can easily defeat its checking with a tarball that
omits the second top-level directory (but contains
the second directory's subsidiary files). Or one could
simply make the top level "." or "..".
A lesser thing: it's missing a NEWS entry.
Although checking like this might be a good idea, it
needn't hold up the next release.