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Hello, >> But, is there any reason to set -----w--w- bit >> by default? > >Yes. > >Please do not extract the kernel tarball as the root user, >especially if you do not know how tar command works for root >user by default (hint: --no-same-permissions). > >Setting g-w in the archive forces arbitrary policy on people who >work with umask 002 as a non-root user. We can let that policy >to be controlled by user's umask by being lenient in the >tarball. For the same reason, if somebody has umask 0, there is >no reason for us (as tarball creator) to impose o-w as a policy >on him either, hence git-tar-tree output has 0666 or 0777 modes. > O.K. Thanks, Komuro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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