Re: PR 44498 should probably be closed

[J Pipkin <jacob.pipkin%icloud.com@localhost>]

On 8/5/24 00:14, Mouse wrote:
> I think it would make more sense to reclassify it as a PR against pax
> rather than a PR against tar.  (Especially if pax exhibits a similar
> insistence on getcwd() working even when run as pax.  I don't know
> whether it does; I don't run anything recent enough to usefully test it
> on, and I don't even know pax-as-pax enough to test it anyway.)

Pax does show the same issue as pax:
--
$ pax < test.pax
cpio.1
cpio.c
cpio.h
$ cd test1/test2
$ pax < ~/test.pax
pax: Cannot get working directory (Permission denied)
$
--

So I agree on reclassifying against pax.


I wonder if it makes more sense to re-tool pax(1) as a front-end to 
libarchive(3) at this point...

I guess there is 1 way to find out.

Thanks.
J