Marc A. Lehmann writes:

The tar -x command in busybox does not restore the file mode correctly.

The reason is most probably this code in
archival/libunarachive/data_extract_all.c:

       chmod(file_header->name, file_header->mode);
       chown(file_header->name, file_header->uid, file_header->gid);

chown clears the set*id bits (on current versions of linux :). Flipping
the order around fixes the problem.

(tested with 1.00pre3 from cvs).
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