Re: [Bug-tar] file name with backslash is not archived

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/03/2010 05:23 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> This seems to be in violation to the SUSv2 standard.

Ah, thanks, that's news to me.  Although, with my lawyer hat on,
the file names in question all have backslashes, so SUSv2 says
that they are not portable across implementations because they
are not restricted to the portable filename character set.  Still,
one should be able to create and extract from tar archives on
systems that support backslashes in file names, so in that sense
tar's behavior does seem to contradict SUSv2.

We'll address this issue again, after the next release comes out.