Re: [Bug-tar] Extract with ?rwx since 1.14?

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ralph Sontag <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > * You get 3 archives:
> >   - x13.tar made by
>
> Thanks, I see the reason now. Actually, it is a bug of the tar
> implementation from busybox. It apparently expects mode field of tar
> header to contain full file mode (with file type bits), whereas POSIX
> requires that this field contain only file permission bits. Thus,
> the busybox tar implementation will not be able to read archives created
> by any POSIX-compliant tar implementation.

Use "star -modebits ...."


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Jörg

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