Lars Gustäbel <l...@gustaebel.de> added the comment: I have done some research in order to find a suitable behaviour for tarfile. I wrote a script to test to what extent all the different tar implementations transform input pathnames. The results can be found at http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/tarfile/wwgtd.html.
My conclusion is the following: tarfile now does no pathname transformation whatsoever except for converting absolute to relative paths (to stay backwards compatible). This way tarfile is closer to POSIX, applies less magic and gives more responsibility to the user. Fixed in r74571 (trunk) and r74573 (py3k). Thanks for your report. ---------- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6054> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
