Re: Default "tar" umask..

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes:

> If the archive is made with 022, that would
> break expectation of users whose umask is 002 (a sane value in
> modern "own" group setups).

What exactly do they expect from 002? That root group will be able
to write to the files?

002 umasks and per-user groups were created, IIRC, purely as as ACL
substitute. I wonder how many people really need anything like
that, especially human people (not news.news things and root.uucp
/dev/ttyS*). I guess not very many.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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