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+2003-09-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
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+       * doc/tar.texi (extracting untrusted archives): New section.
+
+       * src/common.h (stripped_path_len): Renamed from cut_path_elements.
+       Return size_t, not pointer, so that we don't have to worry about
+       violating the C standard by converting char const * to char *.
+       All callers changed.
+       * src/names.c (stripped_path_len): Likewise.  Strip file system
+       prefix, too.  Count adjacent slashes as if they were one slash;
+       that is the POSIX standard.
+
 2003-09-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
 
        * README-alpha: Document maintainer tool assumptions a bit.  GNU