--exclude patterns in tar 1.13

[Jamie Herre]

I'm using gnu tar version 1.13.  The --exclude and --exclude-from pattern 
matching
does not work at advertised.  Only file/directory names may be matched.  Paths
are ignored.  The example given in the manual, '*/tmp/*', will never match.

In src/creat.c the directory entry is matched against patterns before adding
to the complete path...

      while (entry = readdir (directory), entry)
        {
          /* Skip `.', `..', and excluded file names.  */

          if (is_dot_or_dotdot (entry->d_name)
              || excluded_filename (excluded, entry->d_name))
            continue;


Thanks,

-J