* Cosimo Streppone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-29 02:10]:
> but it seems that gnu tar doesn't like the following:
>
> $ tar --mode=0755 cvf blah.tar somedir
> $ tar c --mode=0755 vf blah.tar somedir
>
> and will only accept:
>
> $ tar cvf blah.tar --mode=0755 somedir
>
> Could this work?
GN
Hi!
I don't know if I really understand the entire
"world-writable files" security hole.
Anyway, I think the average CPAN author doesn't
really know or care about that, sadly.
See also:
http://use.perl.org/~cosimo/journal/37554
I'd really prefer not having to change my tar
command on every sys
