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Id: 40016
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Archive-Tar
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: haarg [...] haarg.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.39_04
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  Mon Oct 13 13:21:43 2008 haarg [...] haarg.org - Ticket created
Subject: Archive::Tar assumes $> won't change
Archive::Tar uses a constant, CAN_CHOWN, to note if it is possible to chown a file. To create the constant, $> is compared to 0. However, $> can be changed to reduce the privileges of the perl program. After this, it still tries to change the owner but cannot, resulting in warnings.
  Mon Oct 27 07:07:59 2008 kane [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi, On Mon Oct 13 13:21:43 2008, haarg wrote: Show quoted text
> Archive::Tar uses a constant, CAN_CHOWN, to note if it is possible to > chown a file. To create the constant, $> is compared to 0. However, $> > can be changed to reduce the privileges of the perl program. After > this, it still tries to change the owner but cannot, resulting in
warnings. Thanks for reporting; I've made the CAN_CHOWN lookup dynamic by changing it to a coderef rather than a constant. This fix will be part of the next release of Archive::Tar. Cheers,
  Mon Oct 27 07:08:17 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Oct 27 07:08:43 2008 kane [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'