relative pathname question!

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <5762 at super.upenn.edu> spolsky at 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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