New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com>: If a tarball has a-x perms set on its root directory, one cannot access its contents.
$ tar zxf generator_tools-0.3.5.tar.gz. $ ls generator_tools-0.3.5/ ls: cannot access generator_tools-0.3.5/README.txt: Permission denied ... sridh...@double:/tmp/i$ This is fine for GNU tar (the user can always do a chmod +x later). But for the tarfile library, it would be better to have a flag such as readaccess=True that will force ``extractall`` to enforce *minimum* permissions required for the basic read access. This means, tarfile would ignore u-x on directories and u-r on files. The reason I make this feature request (instead of working around the issue myself in a verbose way) is that the very reason to write a program to extract tarball (instead of doing it manually) is to automate it .. which automation is more effective and simple if ``extractall`` had a flag such as readaccess=True. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 88908 nosy: srid severity: normal status: open title: tarfile.extractall(readaccess=True) type: feature request versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6196> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
