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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-09-09 14:33:31 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-09-09 14:33:31 +0100
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Remove sentance in binutils documentation saying that thin archives cannot contain absolute paths or paths outside of the current directory - they can.
* doc/binutils.texi (ar): Remove bogus sentance concerning thin archives and invalid paths.
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-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog5
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2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index ae9c995..ba6c0c8 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-09-09 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * doc/binutils.texi (ar): Remove bogus sentance concerning thin
+ archives and invalid paths.
+
2015-09-03 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
PR binutils/18879
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index fef5f3e..8a2a652 100644
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -234,8 +234,7 @@ a normal archive. Instead the elements of the first archive are added
individually to the second archive.
The paths to the elements of the archive are stored relative to the
-archive itself. For security reasons absolute paths and paths with a
-@code{/../} component are not allowed.
+archive itself.
@cindex compatibility, @command{ar}
@cindex @command{ar} compatibility