Dan: GNU tar uses text usernames preferentially, otherwise it falls back upon numeric IDs. So if you had a user with the same user name as in the tar file, it would chown it to that user's ID, not the same id as 'tarabas'. This is true only for GNU format tar, however; SysV format tar files do not store textual usernames. -Chris Wing [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Not true. All the kernels I download from a certain local mirror are owned > by the local user 'tarabas' since the uid happens to be the same with > those on the mirror site. So numeric uids. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
