Re: [Bug-tar] restoring at absolute rather than relative file locations

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Vadim Biktashev <address@hidden> wrote:

> When I list contents of the archive with "tar tvf foo.tar (names of
> the files)", I see all file names starting not with '/', i.e. as
> relative file locations.
[...]
> I observe that tar creates the files not in places relative to the
> current working directory, but at the absolute pathnames

That's really strange. GNU tar is known to work the other way around,
i.e. to suppress leading slash by default.

Can I have a look on that archive?

Regards,
Sergey