[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theodore Tso) wrote on 04.07.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:51:49PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Theodore Tso wrote: > > > CPIO format files specify file ownerships by numeric ID, not by name. > > > > As far as I know that is not true. > > Check out a POSIX.1 specification. Even the extended CPIO format only > uses numbers for user and group ownership. Or for an on-line > reference, check out: > > http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man4/cpio.4.asp > > You'll see that even when the ASCII CPIO header is used, the user and > group ownership is expressed in a six character wide field in octal > ascii digits, zero-padded on the left. The next (Austin) revision drops the cpio utility. It keeps the format for pax, though, and it still doesn't do non-binary ids. And the new compromise extended tar format, while it can do just about everything, is really a butt-ugly design. MfG Kai
