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| author | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2021-01-01 13:34:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2021-01-01 13:34:25 +0100 |
| commit | 9daa877d6bdc8dd470ffd86839550c54957eac73 (patch) | |
| tree | fa3e2fac687674546677ca27d8592a669fc6b384 /archival/libarchive | |
| parent | 49fd1d69babc6945175068e8fe4c85713fe5fcdb (diff) | |
tar: add TODO about a bug with non-writable directories on extract
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'archival/libarchive')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c b/archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c index 3142405a3..049c2c156 100644 --- a/archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c +++ b/archival/libarchive/data_extract_all.c @@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ void FAST_FUNC data_extract_all(archive_handle_t *archive_handle) break; } case S_IFDIR: +//TODO: this causes problems if tarball contains a r-xr-xr-x directory: +// we create this directory, and then fail to create files inside it +// (if tar xf isn't run as root). +// GNU tar works around this by chmod-ing directories *after* all files are extracted. res = mkdir(dst_name, file_header->mode); if ((res != 0) && (errno != EISDIR) /* btw, Linux doesn't return this */ |