Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.31 aborts when extracting archive containing ./ with -U

[Harald van Dijk]

On 08/01/2019 19:52, Marius Spix wrote:
> Hi,
>
> good finding. Could you please also add a test case for this instance?
> That would be great.

Agreed in principle, but I checked now to see if there were any existing 
tests to add this to and it seems like -U isn't covered by any tests 
yet. It would be weird to add a test for this special case without 
having a test that the basic functionality works. I might try to come up 
with test cases for that when I have some more free time.

Also, judging from the code, -U is not the only option that's broken. 
Figuring out what broke in which cases might be tricky, especially when 
other options are also not covered by tests, but it seems to me like 
that should be included too.

Cheers,
Harald van Dijk