Re: [patch] TODO for 4.6.1: ./file in tar archive

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <andrew email zp ua>]

Hello, Leonard and Roland,

> We actually have (and it is important that it is) a pointer to the pathname.
> 
>  >>> q = "" <<<
> q will be assigned an empty string.
> 
> Personally, I prefer the second one, as we don't care to which empty 
> string q points.

But this way const char * "" is passed as char *.
 
> The function canonicalize_pathname is not suited to the problem. We 

This function handles ".///a" like names, and without this one tarfs says
"Inconsistent tar archive" for such tar archives.

> As UNC pathnames have nothing to do with Unix I wonder how the function 
> has found its way into util*unix*.c.

This was implemented for cygwin on Pavel Tsekov request.


P.S. Pavel, apply this patch, please.

-- 
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov.