[issue6196] tarfile.extractall(readaccess=True)

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

[Lars] Sure, there is some functionality in extractall() that addresses
issues with inappropriate permissions, but without this functionality the
archive would not even *extract* cleanly. That is very different from
your problem.

Fair enough.

'tis time to creating a pypi package out of my high-level wrapper:

  http://gist.github.com/124597

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