Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751574AbWIMFeT (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:34:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751575AbWIMFeT (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:34:19 -0400 Received: from taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.168.222]:46248 "EHLO taverner.cs.berkeley.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751570AbWIMFeS (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:34:18 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: R: Linux kernel source archive vulnerable Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: References: <20060907182304.GA10686@danisch.de> <45073B2B.4090906@lsrfire.ath.cx> <20060913043319.GH541@1wt.eu> Reply-To: daw-usenet@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) NNTP-Posting-Host: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu 1158125641 14560 128.32.168.222 (13 Sep 2006 05:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:34:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 12 Willy Tarreau wrote: >The initial reason is that Linus now uses the "git-tar-tree" command >which creates the full tar archive from the tree. It does not use tar, >it know how to produce the tar format itself. The command has to set >permissions on the files, and by default, it sets full permissions to >the files. Ahh, thanks for the explanation. That's helpful. So it sounds like git-tar-tree has a bug; its default isn't setting meaningful permissions on the files that it puts into the tar archive. I hope the maintainers of git-tar-tree will consider fixing this bug. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/