[issue5500] tarfile: path problem in arcname under windows

[Elijah Merkin]

Elijah Merkin <elm at transas.com> added the comment:

Sorry for not explaining properly, I was distracted.

1. The absolute path really exists in the .tar.gz file when I view it in
a hex editor.
2. Windows archive managers I tried see that absolute path.
3. Linux tar utility, however, somehow manages to extract the file
correctly to the original relative path.

That's very strange...

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