Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:52:04 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add broken by POLA breakage in tar Message-ID: <200208021752.NAA06071@renown.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:01:08 PDT." <200208011901.PAA26093@marlborough.cnchost.com>
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I said: > my guess is John Gilmore originally created gnu tar from > reading of the man page. If so, that would explain the > difference. I don't have the V7 sources so can't check but > given that companies with the Unix licence (and the orig. > sources) all do the same I believe the V7 man page just > missed out some details. I don't know what POSIX says. I found the sources to V6, V7, various BSDs thanks to www.tuhs.org (The Unix Heritage Society). Boy! Was I wrong! V7 tar does nothing special for root, neither do various BSDs (I checked upto 4.3BSD-Reno -- I even compiled the reno tar and verified that as root umask is obeyed). I don't know at which point root got special treatment in tar at various Unix companies. My apologies to Maxim and others for confusing them. I plead (hopefully temporary) dementia! -- bakul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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