Hi Bdale! Bdale Garbee [2005-09-14 7:48 -0600]: > On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 11:06 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > tar preserves setuid bits when extracting an archive without even a > > warning. > > My initial reaction is "well, of course it does" and concern that > changing this default behavior could violate user expectations. I > understand the motivation for this request, however, and agree that if > we were writing tar from scratch today that the requested behavior would > make sense.
I agree, but it's already confusing enough. unzip did the change, tar didn't, both got a CAN number assigned... But indeed I agree that this is by no way urgent. > I'll talk to upstream about this. Thank you! Have a nice day, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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