Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:17:05 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rwatson@freebsd.org Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar Message-ID: <20040114.131705.93652359.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114142135.49872F-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <4004D445.7020205@acm.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114142135.49872F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes:
: I know NetBSD has a neat tool to create file systems from userspace
: without privilege, but my understanding is that it has to pull in a lot of
: code from the kernel in fairly messy ways. Since tar files are a well
: supported portable format... :-)
The problem then reduces to needing to be able to create the tar file
with ownership/permissions different than is in the unpriv'd build
tree. Generation of this list, as well as getting tar/whatever to
honor it are interesting problems.
Warner
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