On 07/14/2010 10:21 PM, Brett Johnson wrote: > The man page indicates if the directories already exist it will merge > the file to the proper path. My guess is it doesn't touch the > permissions for that reason... (what would we expect tar to do to the > permissions if the directory structure existed without the proper > permissions?) > > That's my guess anyway...
You are right to point out that there is a corner case where the directory already exists. -- Anthony Carrico
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