Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> writes:
> While I agreed with Linus that the very permissive file modes set in tar
> archives were not particularly a problem for kernel users, I'm finding
> that for some other projects it sometimes becomes really annoying, to
> the point that I finally considered using a plain tar instead. This is a
> shame because tar-tree is really fast an powerful, and I like its ability
> to enforce permissions when those of the local dir might be wrong for
> various reasons.
I do not have problem with an option to allow a non-default
behaviour in this area. Maybe we might want to be able to set
the mask in the configuration file as well, perhaps like...
tar.umask = user ;# use from the current process'
tar.umask = 0 ;# same as default
tar.umask = 002 ;# group friendly
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