Comment Re:Old problem. Let's fix it. (Score 1) 215
you are not precise on one point
In unix world, this long known issue was only about the first filename. Typically with classig usage of tar, the first file is your archive, and all others are just filenames. unix/bsd treat them as filenames.
Now comes GNU getopt and "suddenly" decides that from now on it would be cool to have options anywhere on the command line. Result is that in GNU-world, tar is now vulnerable (and many many other commands) which had had no issue at all previously.
I would really like that getopt changes back to "if we see filenames, then consider being after --" or rather: stop parsing options if you find a parameter which does not match any option. That's the last one. Just stop there, do not continue. Leave the rest as it is.