Re: [Bug-tar] --verbatim-files-from is not verbatim at all

2017-11-08 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi, Thanks a lot for clarifications. I have pushed commit dee7e3f1. Please, pull it to fix the bug[1]. Regards, Sergey [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/patch/?id=dee7e3f16e74e07504bb8f4d80426005fe4364ae

Re: [Bug-tar] --verbatim-files-from is not verbatim at all

2017-10-31 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Raingloom ha escrit: I didn't see the content of the file list file in your message. Did I miss something? > ... the file's name was > ":\\.jpg" This raises several questions: 1. Does the file name contains double-quotes? 2. Does it contain single or double backslash? 3. How is it listed in t

[Bug-tar] --verbatim-files-from is not verbatim at all

2017-10-31 Thread Raingloom
Hi, I think I found a bug in tar 1.29 I was trying to tar up files that were listed line by line, but their names contained weird characters. According to every source, --verbatim-files-from should work in this case. It does not work. Neither did using zero terminated strings instead of lines.