Tar 1.24 ouchies

From the changelog for tar 1.25:<p><pre><code> Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect Fix extraction of device nodes</code></pre>

I guess the only thing of interest here is that even a program like tar can have major bugs like these cropping up from time to time.<p>At the time of this post, one of the two referenced bugs had already been fixed, and the other was fixed the next day. A stable release including the fixes was made a week later, so it's likely that nobody other than testers and gentoo users were affected.

Not that I should talk, since I suck at writing tests, but this sounds like something that could have easily been caught by an automated test suite. A program as old and venerable as tar should have one of those by now, one would think.