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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:46 -0000
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        dwbear75@gmail.com
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously createworld writeable dirs
Message-ID:  <3D0022C2.8BB6BBE3@mindspring.com>
References:  <200206062245.g56Mjq319565@vega.vega.com> <20020606210833.W28206-100000@blues.jpj.net> <20020607022829.GF21901@dan.emsphone.com>

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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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