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Re: [Bug-tar] Verify on uid 0 in gnu tar
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Verify on uid 0 in gnu tar |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:21:27 -0700 |
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On 07/26/2012 05:44 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> I think that option --same-owner and other preserve permission options
> must not be default for uid 0.
That might make sense if we were designing 'tar' from scratch
but at this point I expect that many scripts and users expect
the current default behavior.