Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached is the patch which I have applied to Ubuntu's tar to fix the > problem. I'm pretty confident it's correct and you should probably > apply it to Debian's GNU tar, and upstream GNU tar, too.
Thank you. > Also, I noticed that if you attempt to extract a tarfile (at least, > one which contains directories and files inside them) as non-root > without -p with a umask which excludes 0100 or 0200, tar falls over [...] > However, I'm not > sure whether this should be considered a bug or even a misfeature - a I'd rather say it's a user problem. Regards, Sergey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
