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, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .