Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.23 Solaris regression

[Joerg Schilling]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 08/02/10 12:28, Eric Blake wrote:
> > since tar does have the likelihood
> > of creating children, yes, it should play nicely and restore privileges
> > before exec()ing.
>
> Yes, that makes sense.  However, the proposed patch isn't quite
> right, since it restores PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR even if the user had
> removed that privilege before invoking 'tar'.

What is the reason for playing with privileges inside a tar implementaton?

Jörg

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