--- /dev/null
+diff -uprk.orig cpio-2.6.orig/src/copyin.c cpio-2.6/src/copyin.c
+--- cpio-2.6.orig/src/copyin.c 2005-04-26 18:01:02 +0400
++++ cpio-2.6/src/copyin.c 2005-04-26 22:19:07 +0400
+@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
+ #include "dstring.h"
+ #include "extern.h"
+ #include "defer.h"
++#include "dirname.h"
+ #include <rmt.h>
+ #ifndef FNM_PATHNAME
+ #include <fnmatch.h>
+@@ -1335,6 +1336,53 @@
+ }
+ }
+
++/* Return a safer suffix of FILE_NAME, or "." if it has no safer
++ suffix. Check for fully specified file names and other atrocities. */
++
++static const char *
++safer_name_suffix (char const *file_name)
++{
++ char const *p;
++
++ /* Skip file system prefixes, leading file name components that contain
++ "..", and leading slashes. */
++
++ size_t prefix_len = FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (file_name);
++
++ for (p = file_name + prefix_len; *p;)
++ {
++ if (p[0] == '.' && p[1] == '.' && (ISSLASH (p[2]) || !p[2]))
++ prefix_len = p + 2 - file_name;
++
++ do
++ {
++ char c = *p++;
++ if (ISSLASH (c))
++ break;
++ }
++ while (*p);
++ }
++
++ for (p = file_name + prefix_len; ISSLASH (*p); p++)
++ continue;
++ prefix_len = p - file_name;
++
++ if (prefix_len)
++ {
++ char *prefix = alloca (prefix_len + 1);
++ memcpy (prefix, file_name, prefix_len);
++ prefix[prefix_len] = '\0';
++
++
++ error (0, 0, _("Removing leading `%s' from member names"), prefix);
++ }
++
++ if (!*p)
++ p = ".";
++
++ return p;
++}
++
+ /* Read the collection from standard input and create files
+ in the file system. */
+
+@@ -1448,18 +1496,11 @@ process_copy_in ()
+
+ /* Do we have to ignore absolute paths, and if so, does the filename
+ have an absolute path? */
+- if (no_abs_paths_flag && file_hdr.c_name && file_hdr.c_name [0] == '/')
++ if (!abs_paths_flag && file_hdr.c_name && file_hdr.c_name [0])
+ {
+- char *p;
++ char *p = safer_name_suffix (file_hdr.c_name);
+
+- p = file_hdr.c_name;
+- while (*p == '/')
+- ++p;
+- if (*p == '\0')
+- {
+- strcpy (file_hdr.c_name, ".");
+- }
+- else
++ if (p != file_hdr.c_name)
+ {
+ /* Debian hack: file_hrd.c_name is sometimes set to
+ point to static memory by code in tar.c. This
+diff -uprk.orig cpio-2.6.orig/src/extern.h cpio-2.6/src/extern.h
+--- cpio-2.6.orig/src/extern.h 2005-04-26 18:01:02 +0400
++++ cpio-2.6/src/extern.h 2005-04-26 22:17:49 +0400
+@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
+ extern int sparse_flag;
+ extern int quiet_flag;
+ extern int only_verify_crc_flag;
+-extern int no_abs_paths_flag;
++extern int abs_paths_flag;
+ extern unsigned int warn_option;
+
+ /* Values for warn_option */
+diff -uprk.orig cpio-2.6.orig/src/global.c cpio-2.6/src/global.c
+--- cpio-2.6.orig/src/global.c 2004-09-08 14:23:44 +0400
++++ cpio-2.6/src/global.c 2005-04-26 22:19:27 +0400
+@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
+ int only_verify_crc_flag = false;
+
+ /* If true, don't use any absolute paths, prefix them by `./'. */
+-int no_abs_paths_flag = false;
++int abs_paths_flag = false;
+
+ #ifdef DEBUG_CPIO
+ /* If true, print debugging information. */
+diff -uprk.orig cpio-2.6.orig/src/main.c cpio-2.6/src/main.c
+--- cpio-2.6.orig/src/main.c 2005-04-26 18:01:02 +0400
++++ cpio-2.6/src/main.c 2005-04-26 22:24:55 +0400
+@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
+
+ enum cpio_options {
+ NO_ABSOLUTE_FILENAMES_OPTION=256,
++ ABSOLUTE_FILENAMES_OPTION,
+ NO_PRESERVE_OWNER_OPTION,
+ ONLY_VERIFY_CRC_OPTION,
+ RENAME_BATCH_FILE_OPTION,
+@@ -134,6 +135,8 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = {
+ N_("In copy-in mode, read additional patterns specifying filenames to extract or list from FILE"), 210},
+ {"no-absolute-filenames", NO_ABSOLUTE_FILENAMES_OPTION, 0, 0,
+ N_("Create all files relative to the current directory"), 210},
++ {"absolute-filenames", ABSOLUTE_FILENAMES_OPTION, 0, 0,
++ N_("do not strip leading file name components that contain \"..\" and leading slashes from file names"), 210},
+ {"only-verify-crc", ONLY_VERIFY_CRC_OPTION, 0, 0,
+ N_("When reading a CRC format archive in copy-in mode, only verify the CRC's of each file in the archive, don't actually extract the files"), 210},
+ {"rename", 'r', 0, 0,
+@@ -393,7 +396,11 @@ crc newc odc bin ustar tar (all-caps als
+ break;
+
+ case NO_ABSOLUTE_FILENAMES_OPTION: /* --no-absolute-filenames */
+- no_abs_paths_flag = true;
++ abs_paths_flag = false;
++ break;
++
++ case ABSOLUTE_FILENAMES_OPTION: /* --absolute-filenames */
++ abs_paths_flag = true;
+ break;
+
+ case NO_PRESERVE_OWNER_OPTION: /* --no-preserve-owner */
+@@ -631,7 +638,7 @@ process_args (int argc, char *argv[])
+ _("--append is used but no archive file name is given (use -F or -O options")));
+
+ CHECK_USAGE(rename_batch_file, "--rename-batch-file", "--create");
+- CHECK_USAGE(no_abs_paths_flag, "--no-absolute-pathnames", "--create");
++ CHECK_USAGE(abs_paths_flag, "--absolute-pathnames", "--create");
+ CHECK_USAGE(input_archive_name, "-I", "--create");
+ if (archive_name && output_archive_name)
+ USAGE_ERROR ((0, 0, _("Both -O and -F are used in copy-out mode")));
+@@ -658,7 +665,7 @@ process_args (int argc, char *argv[])
+ CHECK_USAGE(rename_flag, "--rename", "--pass-through");
+ CHECK_USAGE(append_flag, "--append", "--pass-through");
+ CHECK_USAGE(rename_batch_file, "--rename-batch-file", "--pass-through");
+- CHECK_USAGE(no_abs_paths_flag, "--no-absolute-pathnames",
++ CHECK_USAGE(abs_paths_flag, "--absolute-pathnames",
+ "--pass-through");
+ CHECK_USAGE(to_stdout_option, "--to-stdout", "--pass-through");
+