Re: Something amiss with busybox tar command
Greg Schafer (gschafer@zip.com.au) tapped away happily, and came up with:
> The latest CVS busybox tar seems to be messing up permissions and
> uid's/gid's when untarring /dev special files. It's also not handling the
> sticky bit on /tmp and /var/tmp.
I see from the source that its based on the 'sash' implementation of tar.
This implementation is _broken_. It behaved exactly like u describe for
an attempted recovery of a broken system from a backup tarball.
Needless to say, I was not amused :)
Leon.
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