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.