'--strip-components=NUMBER' option does work as expected

[Dedeco Balaco]

Hello,

the tar option '--strip-components=NUMBER' does not work as expected. I
had a tar file, created in FreeBSD version of tar, which contained (for
a bit of confusion when creating the tar file) "/../" inside of all files.

The files contained were like:

home/myuser/../myuser/etc1
home/myuser/../myuser/etc2
home/myuser/../myuser/etc3
.
.
.

I tried to extract the files, in my Debian OS, with the option
'--strip-components=3'm for the example given here. tar still complained
about '..' contained in files, although they should have been stripped
before knowing the path where the file should be extracted to. I
consider this a problem. The manpage was read.

More detailed discussion happened here:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/me-tar-command-%3D-stupid-result%3B-4175694243/

Regards