From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [found the culprit] Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:04:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <27024.1542249282@alto> <83efbl799z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542373397 7020 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2018 13:03:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:03:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 14:03:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gNdm8-0001dE-Nm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:03:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44745 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNdoF-0003XB-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:05:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNdnZ-0003X4-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:04:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNdnQ-0006uj-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34394 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNdnP-0006rA-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gNdlC-0000SL-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:02:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IPqMvELWbkZUKrcGF3W2f434Ugo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231183 Archived-At: > But with .tar.gz files, decompressing and unpacking are two separate > actions, so there's an ambiguity what Z might mean. And IMO (and also > in Richard's, AFAIU), the ambiguity should be resolved in the least > surprising way. Having all the files from an archive extracted > without my explicit permission is a surprise, might even be unpleasant > surprise. Could we have a config flag for that, then? un/packing tar.gz is the behavior I expect from `Z`, whereas uncompressing tar.gz and signaling an error on directories is completely useless to me. Stefan