Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh
From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: relative pathname question!
Message-ID: <5103@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 01:01:33 GMT
References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: HASA, "S" Division
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In article <5762@super.upenn.edu> spolsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>As far as I can tell, there is NO way to extract tar files with
>absolute pathnames anywhere except their original positions.

sure is, and a damned clever one at that.  its called "sub-system root".
look up chroot(2) in your unix manual.
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