Re: Busybox tar still having a few problems

[Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com>]

On Mon Dec 27, 1999 at 10:05:41AM +1100, Greg Schafer wrote:
> Specifically:
> 
>  - the setuid bit on binaries is not being preserved (took me ages to figure
>    out why 'su' wouldn't work on fresh installs :)

Now fixed in CVS. Seems that chown(2) clears SUID and SGID, even when
chown is called as root. I changed the ordering of chown and chmod in
busybox's tar so SGID and SUID file permissions don't get munged.

>  - permissions and owner/group info is not being restored correctly on /dev
>    special files.

Also now fixed in CVS.

My appologies for these stupid bugs. Mea culpa! Please test 
and make sure I got 'em fixed up properly.

 -Erik

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