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Re: [Help-tar] Re: Tar same data - different archive


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Help-tar] Re: Tar same data - different archive
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:19:01 -0700
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On 08/27/2010 06:21 AM, Sergey Naumov wrote:
> it is weird for me why
> such a behavior enabled by default

The tar behavior caters to the case where a user named "foo" has
one uid on machine X and a different uid on machine Y.
This is fairly common in practice.



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