On May 20 2017, Markus Koschany <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 19.05.2017 um 23:23 schrieb Chris Lamb:
>> tags 862593 + patch
>> thanks
>>
>> The archive gets overwritten as the test to see whether it already exists
>> (to determine whether to create a new one or simply add a new file) uses
>> an escaped path.
>>
>> Patch attached.
>
> I came to a similar conclusion but I wondered whether the real issue is
> the wrongly escaped path.
[...]
Why is there a need for any escaping at all? I would have expected that
tar/xz/whatever is invoked directly, but this almost sounds if
xarchiver goes through a shell..?!
Best,
-Nikolaus
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