Bug in tar? (was Re: world writable /usr/lib/libguile.so.6.0.0)

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:48:12PM +0000, Ben Collins wrote:
> There is a hardlink created after libguile.so.6.0.0 is installed:
> 
> [buildd@xia03(11:38am)-~/<1>failed/wxxt-1.67c]%dpkg -c /Debian/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/*/libguile6_*.deb | grep libguile.so
> -rw-r--r-- root/root    578636 1999-11-16 22:50:02 ./usr/lib/libguile.so.6.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1999-11-16 22:49:54 ./usr/lib/libguile.so.6 -> libguile.so.6.0.0
> -rwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1999-11-16 22:49:54 ./usr/lib/libguile.so.3 link to ./usr/lib/libguile.so.6

This looks like a bug in tar.

In principle, hard links use the same inode as the existing file, and
permissions are stored in the inode.

Is there any reason for tar to be using different semantics here?

-- 
Raul