Imagine you have a host S you do backups of remote hosts on (EG C), using
an automounter.
Then your backups for C on S will likely internally include something like:
/mymount/C/etc/passwd
...there's nothing magic or particularly relevant about /etc/passwd - it's
just a well-known example path.
If you later want to compare C's backup on C itself using tar --diff, then
it seems reasonable to use something like:
tar --show-transformed-names --strip-components=2 --diff
...to compare etc/passwd in the tar backup with /etc/passwd in the
filesystem.
However, this gives the following warning, one time, presumably for
/mymount/C itself which has been stripped down to having no filename:
tar: : Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
This has been an issue for a while; I'm just getting around to reporting
it. I'm currently using:
$ tar --version
below cmd output started 2025 Sun Apr 27 03:01:59 PM PDT
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