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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:10:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly
From: David Boyce <dsb AT boyski DOT com>
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> I think the patch should remain cygwin-only, and not go upstream.

What about native Windows builds of GNU tar such as GnuWin32? Wouldn't
they benefit from a (suitably conditionalized) patch too?

DSB

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