BSD tar broken file name parsing

[Tim Kientzle]

File a bug and I'll take a look at it.

Bonus if you can check this on -CURRENT; I
have fixed a bunch of problems in -CURRENT
that aren't yet merged into 6.x but I can't
remember right now if this is one of them.

Ti

Steven Hartland wrote:
> Just had a really strange one, on a fresh 6.1 install
> tar will not extract named files e.g.
> tar -xvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
> 
> The above fails to extract the file which quite
> clearly exists:
> tar -tvzPf my.tar.gz | grep /usr/local/etc/httpd.conf
> -rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel   37202 May  6 23:30 
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
> 
> Similarly -tvzPf naming the file doesnt find the file.
> 
> Using wild cards finds the file:
> tar -tvzPf my.tar.gz '*httpd.conf'                            
> -rw-r--r--  0 root   wheel   37202 May  6 23:30 
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
> 
> I suspect its -P processing that is broken. Installing
> gtar and using that works fine:
> gtar -xvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf      
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
> 
> gtar -tvzPf my.tar.gz /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
> -rw-r--r-- root/wheel    37202 2006-05-06 23:30:58 
> /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
> 
>    Steve
> 
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