commit ebad0294c9ee27669a6e211fa5505987b92804f9
author Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Fri Oct 24 23:47:38 2008 +0000
committer Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Fri Oct 24 23:47:38 2008 +0000
tree 33f35387efe52539958cf019d18a7b5f92ac81fe
parent 53c80f09723fa5e9bccd6fbab9c11b14ed520404

tar: fix bug 3844: non-root tar does not preserve perms

archival/tar.c

diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 45701c9..503db5f 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -818,6 +818,10 @@
 	                     | ARCHIVE_PRESERVE_DATE
 	                     | ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_UNCONDITIONAL;
 
+	/* Apparently only root's tar preserves parms (see bug 3844) */
+	if (getuid() != 0)
+		tar_handle->ah_flags |= ARCHIVE_NOPRESERVE_PERM;
+
 	/* Prepend '-' to the first argument if required */
 	opt_complementary = "--:" // first arg is options
 		"tt:vv:" // count -t,-v