Re: bin/41168 (tar treats lines in files supplied to -X as globs)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/41168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: perry%piermont.com@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/41168 (tar treats lines in files supplied to -X as globs)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:20:05 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:05:04PM +0000, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
  >  At the time that I filed this report, this did not work correctly at
  >  all, which Christos acked. I don't know how it works in current. If it
  >  works now, that is the result of something being fixed in the interim,
  >  and releases like 5.x should be checked to make sure they work correctly.
 
 Both -4 and -5 behave as described.
 
 The doc is not fixed though. Will see to that in a moment.
 
 The gtar docs have the same property, but that's not our problem. :-)
 
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 David A. Holland
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