Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968484AbWLERUp (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:20:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968485AbWLERUp (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:20:45 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.56]:39209 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968484AbWLERUo (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:20:44 -0500 Message-Id: <200612051720.kB5HKU4i001616@dell2.home> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bug-cpio@gnu.org cc: martin.leisner@xerox.com Subject: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1613.1165339230.1@dell2.home> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:20:30 -0500 From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 23 I'm working on an embedded system with the 2.6 kernel -- cpio initrd was a new feature I'm looking at (and very welcome). The major advantage I see is you don't have MAKE a filesystem on the build host (doing cross development). So you don't have to be root. But its "useful" to change permissions/ownership of the initrd files at times... Since a cpio is just a userspace created string of bits, I suppose you can apply a set of ownership/permissions to files IN the archive by playing with the bits... Does such a tool exist? Comments? Seems very useful in order to avoid being root... marty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/