Re: Some little problems with 2.1.129

Colin Plumb (colin@nyx.net)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 02:04:06 -0700 (MST)

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> DOS filesystems (msdos, vfat, and perhaps others) do this if you do
> chown() on the files, since they don't support uid/gid's.

> Since "tar" and perhaps other programs do this on every file, this
> gets annoying very quickly.

Unless you use the "quiet" mount option, which makes these operations
fail silently.

-- 
	-Colin


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