[Bug 194477] 10.1-RC1 tar(1) spurious directory permission error message

[John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell]

bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194477
> 
> --- Comment #1 from John Marshall <John.Marshall at riverwillow.com.au> ---
> Confirmed independently on -stable@
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-October/080685.html
> 
> The scenario of traversal-only access to the parent directory is common in a
> situation where the directory contains per-user subdirectories, and each user
> has no business knowing about any subdirectory but his own.
> 
> The archive generated is fine, the user has full permission to the directory
> being archived, but tar(1) exits with an error status.
> 
> I regard this regression as a bug.
> 

i'll bite very interesting

is the error on tar or utar ?  i assume you mean on tar -c but be 
specific

is this new or do older version NOT do this?  if so please state the 
  right and wrong tar versions.

also i need a firm permission basis.  just because you are in same 
group may not be the same as owning (w/respect to utar, not tar) and 
if your using any "kernel extended permissions" (tar obviously uses 
only unix file security / bits.  it stores file perms also user # in 
tar header)

i don't see any follow-ups just the initial comlaint, did this 
complain expire ?