From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:17:26 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] History of chown semantics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 9 Jan 2014, at 14:56, Clem Cole wrote: > I agree with you, I always thought it was crazy and always seem to be caused me a number of issues with things like tape utilities. That's how I found it. tar xfp will almost never work as an ordinary user on a system like this. I don't think it is in Solaris: for my sins (which must be many, clearly) I've spent a lot of time running Solaris systems and I can't remember them allowing this. My memory of SunOS (as in 4 or earlier) systems is too vague to be sure though I am sure tar xfp worked, so probably they did not do this either: must have been some other system I used (Masscomps?) --tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: