Messages in this thread | | | From | (David Wagner) | Subject | Re: R: Linux kernel source archive vulnerable | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:34:01 +0000 (UTC) |
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Willy Tarreau wrote: >The initial reason is that Linus now uses the "git-tar-tree" command >which creates the full tar archive from the tree. It does not use tar, >it know how to produce the tar format itself. The command has to set >permissions on the files, and by default, it sets full permissions to >the files.
Ahh, thanks for the explanation. That's helpful.
So it sounds like git-tar-tree has a bug; its default isn't setting meaningful permissions on the files that it puts into the tar archive. I hope the maintainers of git-tar-tree will consider fixing this bug. - 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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