Bug#597577: tar cannot smoothly handle weird filenames

Package: tar Version: 1.29b-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #597577 Dear Maintainer, just wanted to add that a) this bug still exists b) it happens to not so weird filenames as well c) this seems to be undocumented in both the manpage and at least the synopsis of the info doc d) it contradicts posix, eve

Bug#597577: tar cannot smoothly handle weird filenames

Package: tar Version: 1.23-2.1 GNU tar exits with error when trying to process the filename '\fhd =' (without quotes) For instance, the command tar vzcf file.tar.gz '\fhd =' exits with the following error: tar: \fhd =: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with fail