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Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:56:44 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> But the word "umask" is less meaningful to ordinary users than
> "permissions" is.
Yes, unfortunately :(
> Also, there's the argument of stability. I'm not saying
> --same-permissions is a perfect name, but it has been with us for over
> 15 years and we haven't gotten many complaints about it (with one
> notable exception: a complaint from RMS that caused us to add
> "--preserve-permissions" as an alias in November 1989 :-).
OK, let it be so, then.
Regards,
Sergey
- [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Toby Peterson, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Toby Peterson, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Toby Peterson, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Toby Peterson, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Paul Eggert, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2005/01/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions, Paul Eggert, 2005/01/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] bug: extracting permissions,
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