On Thu, 07 Aug 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm surprised that this doesn't work. Shouldn't fakeroot handle this > case and do the right thing? Or am I confused about what fakeroot is > capable of?
It handles it no problem: $ id -u; fakeroot sh -c 'touch foo; chown www-data foo; stat -c %u foo; rm foo' 1000 33 Don Armstrong -- Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence Point. -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

