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- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 94 10:50:19 +0200
- Message-Id: <9405110850.AA13633@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- To: miff@apanix.apana.org.au
- In-Reply-To: <199405091450.AAA29330@seldon.apanix.apana.org.au> (message from Michael Smith on Tue, 10 May 1994 00:20:38 +0930 (CST))
- Subject: Re: Deleting owned files...
-
- Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> writes:
-
- |> Greetings :
- |> I'm currently being bitten by the "can't delete lockfile" bug, and it's
- |> being a bit of a pain - programs that create lockfiles but can't
- |> delete them.
-
- |> I suspect this is also the reason why tar 1.11.2 (I rebuilt this with the
- |> pl44 mintlibs if anyone is interested) can't set ownership/permissions
- |> on files it extracts sometimes (that's annoying!).
-
- No, this has nothing to do with it. Only the superuser can change the
- ownership of a file, and you can only change the mode if you own the
- file (or you are effectively root). I never had problems extracting a
- tarfile if tar is running as root. Unter SysV, everyone can give away
- files, but that is too risky, and GNU tar will never do that as a
- non-privileged process.
-
- Andreas.
-
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- Andreas Schwab "And now for something
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