cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive archive_read_extract.c

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 7 22:41:46 PDT 2004


Tim Kientzle wrote:
> kientzle    2004-07-08 05:24:48 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libarchive       archive_read_extract.c 
>   Log:
>   I think this is my fourth complete rewrite of the dir-creation
>   code. <whew!> This version handles all of the following edge cases:
>     * Restoring explicit dirs with 000 permissions (star fails this test)
>     * Restore of implicit or explicit dirs when umask=777
>       (gtar and star both fail this test)
>     * Restoring dir paths containing "." and ".." components
>   This version initially creates all dirs with permission 700 (ignoring
>   umask), then does a post-extract "fixup" pass to set the correct
>   permissions (which may or may not depend on umask, depending on the
>   restore flags and whether it's an explicit or implicit dir).
>   Permissions are restored depth-first so that permissions within
>   non-writable dirs can be correctly restored. (The depth-sorting does
>   correctly account for dirs with ".." components.)
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.29      +212 -138  src/lib/libarchive/archive_read_extract.c

Though I freely admit this is all pretty much
academic, some test files that illustrate
these issues are available at:

http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/test/

Tim

P.S.  While playing with umask=777, I discovered a
few annoying nits: cvs erases it's own Entries file;
chmod -R and rm -rf both fail on non-readable dirs.



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