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Re: Experiences with compiling Debian



Mark Baker wrote:

[building as non-root]

>what if the package
>tries to set the ownership of a file from within another shell script or a
>perl script; how can you intercept that so it works properly?

Build a shared library which wraps all calls to chown(), then set
LD_PRELOAD to that library.  Should be pretty foolproof.
-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.


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