Path restrictions on thin archives

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Wed Sep 9 13:35:00 GMT 2015


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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