> > To be honest, I have been thinking about this, yes a patch to tar > is > > what I would support as well. Call it "disttar" make it force the > > permissions to be what they should while unpacking and packing. > > > > This would really make sense. > > mike > > I should have known better. GNU did not put silly restrictions in > their > app. I looked into it, and tar actually supports --owner <uid> and > --group <gid>. They're just not documented on the man page. And > permissions are not a problem, you are always allowed to set any > permissions you like without being root. The only problem is special > nodes, but that is probably a rare enough problem to allow for using > silly hacks. ;-) > Great!
By special nodes, you mean symlinks? So for cygwin, this should be solution? mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
