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Author	srid
Recipients	srid
Date	2009-06-04.21:52:01
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Considering this bug where tarfile fails to set g+s, https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/236190 a more general approach could be: tarfile.extractall(safe_perms=True) where if safe_perms is set, tarfile can 1) ignore +/-s on all files, 2) ignore u-x on directories and 3) ignore u-r on files.

Considering this bug where tarfile fails to set g+s,

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/236190

a more general approach could be:

  tarfile.extractall(safe_perms=True)

where if safe_perms is set, tarfile can 1) ignore +/-s on all files, 2)
ignore u-x on directories and 3) ignore u-r on files.

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