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Re: [Bug-tar] Interpreting filenames as rsh hosts by default
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Hanno Böck |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Interpreting filenames as rsh hosts by default |
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Mon, 8 May 2017 11:47:38 +0200 |
On Mon, 08 May 2017 12:36:19 +0300
Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hanno Böck <address@hidden> ha escrit:
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> > I'm not sure if anyone uses this feature any more,
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> It is used regularly to access remote archives.
Okay, may very well be, although I never heard of it.
> On all existing distributions tar is configured so that it uses ssh
> instead of rsh.
That doesn't change the fact that this is extremely surprising behavior
that really shouldn't be default ("principle of least surprise").
To reemphasis this: It's not just that tar will do network connections,
it will do them based on the filename one tries to unpack.
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