Re: tar directory traversal

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:22:01 +0400
> From: 3APA3A <address@hidden>
> 
> BTW:  I've  got  some  problems with ./configure. It created Makefiles
> only after 2nd attempt. I don't remember exact message, something like
> "-STATUS:  not  defined".  But may be it's because I've killed another
> one  ./configure  before  (mktime  test  was  so  long  that I decided
> something is wrong)

Something is indeed wrong: your mktime is buggy.  The configure script
should time out after 60 seconds, and should then continue the next
test.

Perhaps 'configure' should say something like 'please wait for up to
one minute in case your system is buggy or slow'.