Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Toby Peterson <address@hidden> wrote:

> OK, so this was changed (corrected) between 1.13.25 and 1.14? I'm
> simply trying to investigate the cause of the new behavior.

The default behavior was changed on 2003-07-04. See ChangeLog, the
following link will show you the exact diffferences introduced that day:

http://sv.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/tar/tar/src/extract.c.diff?r1=1.46&r2=1.47&diff_format=u

Notice the changes below '@@ -1184,9 +1165,9 @@' marker: it is them that
cause the change of the default behavior.

Unfortunately, NEWS file does not seems to contain any mention of that.

The handling of --no-same-permissions option did not change between
1.13.25 and 1.14.x.

Regards,
Sergey