WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously createworld writeable dirs

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Fri Sep 24 08:50:46 PDT 2004


Dan Nelson wrote:
> Tar 1.13 is 3 years old, and has many bugs (incremental backups are
> unusable, for example).

On the flip side, I hear it respects the umask when running as root...

-- Terry

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