[New-bugs-announce] [issue3016] tarfile.py incurs exception from self.chmod() when tarball has g+s

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

New submission from Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com>:

As reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/236190 ,
tarfile.py incurs an "Operation not permitted" exception (on Mac OS
10.4) when it tries to untar the pyOpenSSL-0.6.tar.gz tarball, because
that tarball has directories in it marked as having the "g+s" bit.

(Why this leads to an "Operation not permitted" exception, I don't know.)

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messages: 67563
nosy: zooko
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile.py incurs exception from self.chmod() when tarball has g+s
type: behavior

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