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From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Mark Rosenstand <mark@borkware.net>
Subject: Re: World writable tarballs
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:48:12 +0100
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On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:18, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that at least the content of the 2.6.16 tarball is world
> writable if extracted with GNU tar as an privileged user.
>
> Is this on purpose in order to prove some point?

Read this thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113304241100330&w=2

There's no need to repeatedly discuss it.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.