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");