* Toni Mueller | Or (if tar were statically linked) one could do something | like (chroot $CWD && tar xzvf source.tar.gz). | | What have i missed? You'd have to either have a chroot which wraps open, stat (and thereby fakes the chroot) or unpack as root. I'd prefer the first one (and perhaps fakeroot could be extended to do this as well?) -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.