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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:27:31 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
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:  <20020607112731.GB28015@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020606235414.G28206-100000@blues.jpj.net>
References:  <20020607022829.GF21901@dan.emsphone.com> <20020606235414.G28206-100000@blues.jpj.net>

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:15:09AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
[snip]
> According to Mr. Schilling's testing, GNU tar 1.13.25 has a bug:
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/README.gtarfail . I guess
> it qualifies as a "non-trivial program". :-)

FYI, the current pax implementation is able to handle the following
archives from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/testscripts/ :

	100char_longlink.tar
	gtarfail.tar
	gtarfail2.tar

but miserably fail on this one :

	long.ustar.gz

$ uname -a
FreeBSD gits 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #7: Sun Jun  2 16:33:05 CEST 2002     root@gits:/disk2/4.x-stable/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM  i386
$ pax -zvf 
-rw-r--r--  1 486              cvs            4 Apr 19  2000 ___________________
___________________________________________________________________________D_099
/_______________________________________________________________________________
__________________1000000644 0000746 0003720 00000000004 07077317140 0055507 0

$ star -zvtf 
      4 -rw-r--r-- jes/cats Apr 19 13:54 2000 __________________________________
____________________________________________________________D_099/______________
________________________________________________________________________________
___100

I'll try to fix this...

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net

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