Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> But the word "umask" is less meaningful to ordinary users than
> "permissions" is.

Yes, unfortunately :(

> Also, there's the argument of stability.  I'm not saying
> --same-permissions is a perfect name, but it has been with us for over
> 15 years and we haven't gotten many complaints about it (with one
> notable exception: a complaint from RMS that caused us to add
> "--preserve-permissions" as an alias in November 1989 :-).

OK, let it be so, then.

Regards,
Sergey