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Re: Path restrictions on thin archives

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Rafael EspÃndola <rafael dot espindola at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:35:30 +0100
Subject: Re: Path restrictions on thin archives
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Hi Rafael,

The manual page says:

For security reasons absolute paths and paths with a "/../" component
are not allowed.


But that is not the case:


True - I have checked in your suggested patch and removed that sentence.

Cheers
  Nick

binutils/ChangeLog
2015-09-09  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* doc/binutils.texi (ar): Remove bogus sentance concerning thin
	archives and invalid paths.

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