Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Capabilities, this time in elf section | Date | Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:29:10 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> said:
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> You actually *want* capabilities to be copied around with tar, cp and > friends. I don't want to use special tools to backup or copy my > system.
You'll need them anyway sooner or later. Better sooner, IMHO.
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> tar, cp, cpio, gzip, bzip2, NFS, CODA, rdist and many more, I'm > sure. I've got a backup programme written in C which would lose > capability information unless I went in an added a Linux-specific hack > to it. I'm sure there are dozens or hundreds of similar "personal" > programmes out there that will break.
But all of those are currently very well aware of S[UG]ID, if it really matters... -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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