tar v1.28. Just spent all day trying to figure out why tar refuses to extract files with the same permissions as in the tarball.
In the tarball, ./tmp has mode 1777. Extracting the files as root with or without option --same-permissions yields the desired result: the extracted dir tmp has mode 1777. Alas, option -T (--files-from, used to get a list of files to restore from a file) turns on --no-same-permissions. I've found no way around it; I think it's a bug. In short, if I use -T to supply a list of files to restore from a file, tar fails to correctly restore the files (in my case, it fails to restore the correct mode).
