ar 2.10.91 and command scripts

[Zagorodnev, Grigory]

Hi!

One of the features which I like in GNU ar is the command script.

But I reached a problem with GNU ar 2.10.91 (I was using 2.9.5 before).
Simple script...
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        CREATE ./foo.a

        END
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does not work with ar 2.10.91...
        address@hidden tmp]$ ar -M < script
        /usr/bin/ar: Can't open output archive tmp-./foo.a

As I can see, reason of problem is in approach for temporary name creation.
Previous versions of ar use template "%s-tmp" for name generation but now it is the "tmp-%s".
According to note in ar source code it was done to support DOS-like file systems with 8.3 name format.

Anyway, I want to ask couple questions:
        - Is this problem already known?
        - Is it already fixed in the latest versions?
        - If not, are you going to fix it?

Thanks,
Grigory Zagorodnev.