WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:46 -0000
Hi,

I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base
system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs,
while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make
make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top level dir gets 777 as well as several
other lowel level dirs). The issue is under investigation.

-Maxim

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Received on Fri Sep 24 2004 - 13:50:46 UTC

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