freebsd stable - Feb 2008 - Tar regression from 6.2 to 6.3 with --strip-components

Hi,

I've just noticed a regression in tar from 6.2 to 6.3:

Running this on 6.2 produces no output:

#!/bin/sh
mkdir -p a b output
touch a/file1 b/file2
tar cf test.tar a b
tar -x -C output --strip-components 1 -f test.tar

On 6.3, it produces this output:

: Invalid empty pathname
: Invalid empty pathname
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

And the tar extraction returns a failure.

Is this known?  Should I raise a PR?

Regards,

Jan Mikkelsen

Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just noticed a regression in tar from 6.2 to 6.3:
> 
> Running this on 6.2 produces no output:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> mkdir -p a b output
> touch a/file1 b/file2
> tar cf test.tar a b
> tar -x -C output --strip-components 1 -f test.tar
> 
> On 6.3, it produces this output:
> 
> : Invalid empty pathname
> : Invalid empty pathname
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> 
> And the tar extraction returns a failure.
> 
> Is this known?  Should I raise a PR?
Let's see what Tim has to say.

Kris

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:09:50AM +1100, Jan Mikkelsen
wrote:
> And the tar extraction returns a failure.
I can confirm this does not work on 8-CURRENT either.
> Is this known?  Should I raise a PR?
That seems a good idea to me. Thanks!

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