From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxi!hocsb!hocsd!jis
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: chown
Article-I.D.: hocsd.125
Posted: Wed Sep  8 14:43:13 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 04:11:28 1982

I have always wondered why tar did not provide an option that would suppress
chowning extracted files to the ownership of the original owner, who more
often than not does not exist on the system, (or worse is someone else!). I
do not think disallowing chown is a solution to this problem at all!

Jishnu Mukerji
Bell Laboratories
HO 1B-425 (201) 949-3427
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