Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed

[Alan Curry]

Jim Meyering writes:
> 
> Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> ...
> >> [chroot-i486] root:/$ umask
> >> 0022
> >> [chroot-i486] root:/$ rm -rf /usr/src/coreutils*
> >> [chroot-i486] root:/$ cd /usr/src
> >> [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz
> >> [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld /usr /usr/src /usr/src/coreutils-8.1
> ...
> >> drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1
> >>
> >> don't know why
> >
> > Just the side effect of using tar as root
> > --no-same-permissions let umask be applied
> 
> Thanks for explaining.
> That's another good reason to do less as root.

So was the drwxrwxrwx in the tarball put there to teach a lesson to those
who trust a tarball to have sane permissions? Or is it a bug?

-- 
Alan Curry