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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Intelligent subdirectory creation to guard against
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Intelligent subdirectory creation to guard against tarbombs |
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Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:28:34 -0700 |
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On 08/08/2013 07:10 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Except as a new option that requires no argument, it is easy to modify
> the user's login scripts to set up an alias around tar, so that the
> option is ALWAYS supplied in the user's given interactive environment,
> where it does the right thing for both tarbombs and normal tar files
> with all contents in a single directory.
I don't know, that sounds a bit intrusive. Many tar files
don't follow these new rules. The tz database, for example.