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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