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Re: preparing 2.3.6



On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:09:14AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> 
> I think it is sufficient to remove the calls to umask (0) in
> tar.c.  We always call chmod on the created file, so the only way
> this could cause problems is if the umask of the file disallows
> all write permissions.  In this case, GNU tar fails so I don't
> think we should have to do more.
> 
> Furthermore, I think that it really is a problem with base-files.
> Relying on the umask set when debootstrap is run to ensure a
> secure system is scary.

we can't depend on base-files to cleanup a screwup by busybox tar
since the affected directories are not present in base-files (/etc/apm
for example).  the base-files extraction already appears to fix alot
of these, but not all, thats why busybox tar must behave itself.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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