[...]
> You actually *want* capabilities to be copied around with tar, cp and
> friends. I don't want to use special tools to backup or copy my
> system.
You'll need them anyway sooner or later. Better sooner, IMHO.
[...]
> tar, cp, cpio, gzip, bzip2, NFS, CODA, rdist and many more, I'm
> sure. I've got a backup programme written in C which would lose
> capability information unless I went in an added a Linux-specific hack
> to it. I'm sure there are dozens or hundreds of similar "personal"
> programmes out there that will break.
But all of those are currently very well aware of S[UG]ID, if it really
matters...
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