Re: permissions of files in dist tarball (was: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >     Make sure that the directory into which the distribution unpacks (as
> >  well as any subdirectories) are all world-writable (octal mode 777).
> >  This is so that old versions of `tar' which preserve the ownership and
> >  permissions of the files from the tar archive will be able to extract
> >  all the files even if the user is unprivileged.
>
> Does anyone have a cite for what version, how old?
>
> (sounds like mid 1980's, actually).

It must not be that old since I have distinct memories of such 
problems.

Bob
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