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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Honor extractor's umask in git-tar-tree.
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:32:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43417924.7000308@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510031113500.31407@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Is it? The only place umask is mentioned in the man-page is
> 
>        --no-same-permissions
>               apply  user?s  umask  when  extracting files instead of recorded
>               permissions
> 
> but if tar really does honor umask, then hey, that 0777/0666 is fine.
> 
> (Ahh, googling a bit more, it appears that "-p" is default for root, which 
> explains why you'd need the "anti-flag").
> 

Yeah, that assymetry is rather unfortunate.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-03 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-30 16:03 Destructive side-effect of "cg-status" Wolfgang Denk
2005-10-01 10:24 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-10-01 16:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-01 18:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-01 19:07     ` Honor extractor's umask in git-tar-tree Junio C Hamano
2005-10-02  3:24       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-02  9:55         ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-03  4:44           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-03  5:10             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-03 16:30               ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-03 17:18                 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-03 17:28                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-03 17:45                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-03 18:05                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-03 18:18                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-03 18:32                       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-01 19:42   ` Destructive side-effect of "cg-status" Wolfgang Denk
2005-10-01 20:24     ` Linus Torvalds

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