On Thursday 02 July 2009 09:56:35 Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 02:45:24 John R Pierce wrote:
> > ajmcello wrote:
> > > The only downside with adding o to tar that I can see is if it isn't
> > > supported by a non-GNU version of tar.
> >
> > On solaris 9 and 10 at least, tar -o means set ownership of extracted
> > files to the runner and not the uid in the tar, which I assume is what
> > we want here.
> >
> > Note, this is on Solaris /usr/bin/tar
> >
> > I'd suggest that if this works on...
> >
> > A) solaris 8+
> > B) hp-ux
> > C) AIX 5.x+
> > D) Free/Net/OpenBSD
> >
> > it would be safe for 'unix' systems, as there really aren't many other
> > flavors of 'unix' in common use anymore.
>
> But it doesn't, hence this thread.
I meant rather, hence the other thread, where we had to revert this.