Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 01:46, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > Sure enough, I can confirm this.
> >
> > I don't seem to have to provide --no-same-permissions to tar to get umask
> > to affect the permissions of extracted files, so my files are fine
> > on-disc.
>
> FWIW, ubuntu's man-pages claim:
>
> "       --no-same-permissions
>               apply umask to extracted files (the default for non-root
> users)"
>
> and
>
> "       -p, --same-permissions, --preserve-permissions
>               ignore umask when extracting files (the default for root)"
>
> Maybe you are untarring as non-root and David is untarring as root?
>

Thanks Nish, this is obviously the difference. I never compile anything as 
root (pesky Makefiles rm -rf'ing things!).

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Alistair.

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