Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:18:11 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs Message-ID: <20020607011811.A48468@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020606235414.G28206-100000@blues.jpj.net>; from trevor@jpj.net on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:15:09AM -0400 References: <20020607022829.GF21901@dan.emsphone.com> <20020606235414.G28206-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:15:09AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote: > On my friend's BSD/OS system, there is no tar--or rather, it's just a hard > link to pax: >=20 > % ls -li `which tar` `which pax` > 1819 -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 58288 Jun 12 1998 /bin/pax > 1819 -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 58288 Jun 12 1998 /bin/tar >=20 > Their tar/pax hybrid must check its argv[0]. Isn't that evil? So does ours..try it sometime :) Kris --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9AGxDWry0BWjoQKURAne9AKCECIY4KMbB39/RxEAbD29IOcHizQCeIczX HcIQCT9sNpMER/qa8wFf9qo= =nTGy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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