Re: faq10.html

Paul de Weerd <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:44:18 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.www
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Alf Schlichting wrote:
| Hello!
|
| Using the p-flag for tar(1) on only one side of the pipe
| in faq10.html#DupFS makes no sense.

from tar(1) :

     -p      Preserve user and group ID as well as file mode regardless of
the
             current umask(2).  The setuid and setgid bits are only preserved
             if the user is the superuser.  Only meaningful in conjunction
             with the -x flag.

Note the last sentence. Permissions are always stored in the archive,
no need for flags.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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