From 35a5b08eee997593e4e852a6b48fc4b2bb4904e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn L McGrath <bug1@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:07:48 +0000
Subject: unlink() an existing file, before opening it, simply truncating can
 cause nasty problems if overwriting glibc, spotted by waldi.

---
 archival/tar.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'archival/tar.c')

diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index c39d5787f..23af9ffa3 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ static inline int writeTarFile(const char *tarName, const int verboseFlag,
 		tbInfo.tarFd = fileno(stdout);
 		tbInfo.verboseFlag = verboseFlag ? 2 : 0;
 	} else {
-		tbInfo.tarFd = open(tarName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644);
+		unlink(tarName);
+		tbInfo.tarFd = open(tarName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0644);
 		tbInfo.verboseFlag = verboseFlag ? 1 : 0;
 	}
 
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