From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 21 0: 7:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B62337B675; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6L77Zx05938; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:07:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , committers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE code freeze on July 20th. Message-ID: <20000721000735.U13979@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <9405.963910516@localhost> <20000720022124.H13979@fw.wintelcom.net> <7lagcjds.fsf@pc166.gits.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <7lagcjds.fsf@pc166.gits.fr>; from clefevre@citeweb.net on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:22:23AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Cyrille Lefevre [000720 19:22] wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > > Alfred Perlstein 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message