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[binutils-gdb] Remove sentance in binutils documentation saying that thin archives cannot contain absolute paths or
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at sourceware dot org>
- To: bfd-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 9 Sep 2015 13:34:27 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] Remove sentance in binutils documentation saying that thin archives cannot contain absolute paths or
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d8f187c1abc0aaf718b92bf4a4ecaf3a9e866c56
commit d8f187c1abc0aaf718b92bf4a4ecaf3a9e866c56
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Sep 9 14:33:31 2015 +0100
Remove sentance in binutils documentation saying that thin archives cannot contain absolute paths or paths outside of the current directory - they can.
* doc/binutils.texi (ar): Remove bogus sentance concerning thin
archives and invalid paths.
Diff:
---
binutils/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 3 +--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index ae9c995..ba6c0c8 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-09-09 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * doc/binutils.texi (ar): Remove bogus sentance concerning thin
+ archives and invalid paths.
+
2015-09-03 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
PR binutils/18879
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index fef5f3e..8a2a652 100644
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -234,8 +234,7 @@ a normal archive. Instead the elements of the first archive are added
individually to the second archive.
The paths to the elements of the archive are stored relative to the
-archive itself. For security reasons absolute paths and paths with a
-@code{/../} component are not allowed.
+archive itself.
@cindex compatibility, @command{ar}
@cindex @command{ar} compatibility