From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:33:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar-tree: add the "tar.applyUmask" config option
Message-ID: <7vd5c1jkc3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060719214025.GA10997@1wt.eu>

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 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