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Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:44:25 +0300
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   tar and /
Message-ID:  <ED20B859-CDFF-4205-B7A9-A1A86AAAE1D9@cs.huji.ac.il>

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hi,
for security reasons tar removes the leading /, which is fine.
so I can chadir to /var/tmp, and do an extract there. The problem arises =
when there
is a file that is linked to /=85
Is there some way to drop that leading =91/=91 too?

cheers,




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