Gene Heskett <[email protected]> ha escrit: > IMO it should not be capable of changing the . directories properties.
The '.' does not differ from any other archive members, so I don't see why it should be treated differently. I cannot buy the argument that changing its ownership/mode may be unexpected to the user, because this simply means that the user did not read the docs. Indeed, a change to '.', if unnoticed, may cause certain problems (perhaps even security-related, depending on the CWD), but the same problems would be caused by any archive member name, when used improperly. Consider, e.g. an archive containing 'etc' with improper permissions which is extracted from /. Does that mean that tar should also refuse to change the mode of any extracted member whose name is 'etc'? I don't believe so. Regards, Sergey
