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Re: [Full-disclosure] GNU tar directory traversal



Hello,

Siim Põder wrote:
> But not outside cwd or another directory specified by the -C option.
> Agreed? Great.

no. Not agreed. -C is for changing the directory *before processing the 
remaining arguments*. So, if you don't want tar to overwrite files, you 
have to use -w.

GTi

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