PHP Pear incorrectly handles backslashes in file names when using Archive/Tar.php

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Issue

When using Archive/Tar.php from the php-pear package, if a file contains backslashes the are translated to forward slashes when put in a tar archive. So when this tar archive is unpacked it created many subdirectories. As this is not intended behaviour, how can this be fixed?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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