As brought up on misc@ pax doesn't allow creation of devices or fifos without
the p flag, however this is only when the archive is not compressed. If you
compress the archive, you can create them upon decompression/unarchiving.
Since dpath was added to allow creation of devices in the pledge call for the
non-compression code path, I am assuming it was meant to be added to the
compresson code path as well.
Tim.
Index: pax.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/pax/pax.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -p -r1.44 pax.c
--- pax.c 16 Dec 2015 01:39:11 -0000 1.44
+++ pax.c 23 Jun 2016 00:40:55 -0000
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
/* Copy mode, or no gzip -- don't need to fork/exec. */
if (gzip_program == NULL || act == COPY) {
- if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath fattr cpath getpw ioctl",
+ if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath dpath fattr cpath getpw
ioctl",
NULL) == -1)
err(1, "pledge");
}
