Re: [Bug-tar] Anti-tarbomb feature --new-dir

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Martin von Gagern <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> I find myself often doing things like "tar tf" followed by "tar xf",
> where the tf is only to ensure that the tar does contain a single
> subdirectory. Computers could do this check much more quickly, so I'd
> like to request an option for it.
[...]
> What do you think? Has this been discussed before?

I think it would be a useful feature.  I have already received some
similar proposals.

> Do you want a patch for this?

Thanks, but I don't think that would be necessary.  I'd rather try to
implement that myself.  I'll let you know when I have something tangible
to test.

Regards,
Sergey