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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:07:35 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.1-STABLE code freeze on July 20th.
Message-ID:  <20000721000735.U13979@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <7lagcjds.fsf@pc166.gits.fr>; from clefevre@citeweb.net on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:22:23AM %2B0200
References:  <9405.963910516@localhost> <xzpu2dlfejx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000720022124.H13979@fw.wintelcom.net> <xzpk8ehc9n3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <7lagcjds.fsf@pc166.gits.fr>

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* Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> [000720 19:22] wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> writes:
> 
> > Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes:
> > > I think you can cause some serious problem with directories with
> > > spaces in them, basically being able to send extra flags to tar?
> > 
> > The only option you're allowed to mix with filenames is -C, which is
> > harmless, I think.
> 
> well, replacing " -cf - %s" by " -cf - -- %s" seems to work.
> 
> # tar -cvf test.tar -- -verbose test
> tar: can't add file -verbose : No such file or directory
> test

It's still seems bogus, it probably doesn't work if you have
'/some/path to/something'.

-Alfred


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