Hello all, I am trying to determine if I'm encountering a bug or expected behavior with Archive::Tar. I've noticed that if I archive a directory such as /usr/include/sys/*.h that permissions are retained only for files underneath the sys directory. The permissions for /usr/include/sys change to the user that is extracting the files, including root. If the directory(/usr/include/sys) is owned by someone other than root it is not retained even if root does the extraction. If I use tar standalone to archive the directory then the permissions are retained for all directories. Is this to be expected? Additionally I've noticed that I cannot archive named pipes at all. The process will attempt to open the pipe and remain hung waiting on a response. This is the basic code I am using. 
   use Archive::Tar;

   $tar = Archive::Tar->new();
   $tar->add_files(<"/usr/include/sys/*.h">) or die("Failed $!\n");
   $tar->write("files.tar") or die("Failed $!\n");

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These are the permissions on the original directories: ls -ld /usr drwxr-xr-x 54 root sys 69 Apr 9 2018 /usr ls -ld /usr/include drwxr-xr-x 117 root bin 436 Sep 25 22:10 /usr/include ls -ld /usr/include/sys drwxr-xr-x 25 root bin 628 Sep 25 22:09 /usr/include/sys When I extract the archive(as root) generated from my code I see these permissions: ls -ld usr drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Jan 20 13:06 usr ls -ld usr/include drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Jan 20 13:06 usr/include ls -ld usr/include/sys drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 11776 Jan 20 13:07 usr/include/sys Thank you for any assistance!

In reply to Archive::Tar directory permissions by LiveandLearn2021

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