Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18993/focus=11176 > > please consider the patch below. > Without it, a root-run invocation of gnu tar (without --no-same-permissions) > to unpack a tarball created by "make dist" (this affects any automake-using > project) will result in all directories being world-writable.
What's wrong with group-writable? Remember, a bug report was raised against autoconf for preventing group-writable directories. -- Eric Blake
