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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
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Subject: Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs
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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

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