Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 03/46] install.sh: Preserve permissions from make install

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 14:14 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 14:59 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Although, do you suppose that the tar unpack right above it ought to use
> > -p/--preserve-permissions ?
> 
> At least the tar I use preserves permissions automatically.

Only for root I expect, if yours is anything like my manpage:
     -p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions
           extract information about file permissions (default for superuser)

> I wonder what the removed chmod tried to fix anyway.

No idea...



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