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Diffstat (limited to 'archival/tar.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/tar.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
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 @@ int tar_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) | 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 |