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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] bug or feature? |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:04:58 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
On 12/14/2017 12:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Is there any reason that tar should change the permissions or ownership of the . directory if it is present in a tarball?
Yes, as that's what tar has done "forever" and quite possibly some people depend on it. It might be a good idea to omit extraction of "." unless some new option is specified.
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