Re: pax fix (was Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs)

2002-06-11 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:27:19AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: [...] > already done using the NetBSD way. the problem is that they use > LC_TIME (hugh!) to pass the format string to strftime while > LC_TIME isn't suppose to contain any format strings but a locale > name. Ew! That won't work for

Re: pax fix (was Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs)

2002-06-11 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:07:45AM +0200, Bjoern Fischer wrote: > > PS : I've finished to merge diffs from OpenBSD last week, but diffs > > w/ NetBSD are really big... so, be patient :P > > What about bin/35886? already done using the NetBSD way. the problem is that they use LC_TIME (hugh!) to p

Re: pax fix (was Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs)

2002-06-11 Thread Bjoern Fischer
> PS : I've finished to merge diffs from OpenBSD last week, but diffs > w/ NetBSD are really big... so, be patient :P What about bin/35886? Björn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

2002-06-07 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:15:09AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: [snip] > According to Mr. Schilling's testing, GNU tar 1.13.25 has a bug: > ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/README.gtarfail . I guess > it qualifies as a "non-trivial program". :-) FYI, the curren

Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

2002-06-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:15:09AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote: > On my friend's BSD/OS system, there is no tar--or rather, it's just a hard > link to pax: > > % ls -li `which tar` `which pax` > 1819 -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 58288 Jun 12 1998 /bin/pax > 1819 -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin

Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

2002-06-06 Thread Maxim Sobolev
> > > > > Hi, > > > > I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base > > system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs, > > while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make > > make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top level dir gets 777 as well as

Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: > Tar 1.13 is 3 years old, and has many bugs (incremental backups are > unusable, for example). On the flip side, I hear it respects the umask when running as root... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

2002-06-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 06), Trevor Johnson said: > > I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base > > system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs, > > while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make > > make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top

Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

2002-06-06 Thread Maxim Sobolev
> > Hi, > > I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base > system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs, > while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make > make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top level dir gets 777 as well as several > other

WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs

2002-06-06 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, I've just noticed that something wrong with the new tar in the base system (1.13.25) - when extracting some archives it creates 777 dirs, while permissions in the archive itself are OK (for example GNU make make-3.79.1.tar.gz - top level dir gets 777 as well as several other lowel level dirs)