Re: [PATCH] openat2: fix trailing-slash dotlike final component

On 2026-06-17 09:34, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2026-06-16 14:47, kalfalakh wrote:
>> GNU tar extracting a member "a/./b" fails with ENOENT.
>> It is due to a bug in the emulation of openat2(), more
>> specifically when processing dotlike components,
>> resulting in openat() being called on "". Please see
>> the proposed attached patch.
> 
> Thanks for reporting the problem. I think I see the cause, and 
> installed the attached patch into Gnulib. Please give the patch a try. 
> If it doesn't fix things for you, please let us know the platform 
> you're running on. Also, it'd be nice to see a test case illustrating 
> the unfixed bug, e.g., in the form of a patch to tests/test-openat2.c.

Thank you. Works as expected.

Regards,
Kinan