Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:23:23AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes: >> >> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 08:48:42PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> I think the real problem is that the Mac tar is broken and we need to >> >> avoid using it. >> > >> > I haven't seen anything in this thread to suggest that. >> >> The mac tar program creates files with mode 666 when run as root, even >> without the p option. While tar specs are fuzzy, that seems wrong. > > No, it isn't. It has been the specified behavior of tar since forever. You didn't answer the last question. Do you have an opinion about what should be done?
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