Matt inAmsterdam mattams@yahoo.co.uk writes:

The top level directory in the latest fsh-1.0.post.4 is world writeable.

Matt

That is as it should be. I quote the GNU Coding Standards:

Make sure that the directory into which the distribution unpacks (as well as any subdirectories) are all world-writable (octal mode 777). This is so that old versions of `tar' which preserve the ownership and permissions of the files from the tar archive will be able to extract all the files even if the user is unprivileged.

Automake enforces this standard automatically. Unless there is a very strong reason why fsh should behave differently than all other automake-generated distributions, I won't do anything about this. If you feel that it is a serious problem that distribution directories are world-writable you should take it up with the people writing the GNU Coding Standards.

GNU tar adheres to the current umask when unpacking an archive, so if I execute these commands:

umask 022 tar xfz fsh-1.0.post.4.tar.gz

the result is a directory that is only writeable by me.

/ceder