Den 06/10/2010 kl. 08.00 skrev Tim Kientzle: > > That's the timestamp on the pseudo-entry used to store the archive > symbol table. (GNU/SysV ar files use a pseudo-entry named "/" to > store the symbol table. Since '/' is added to end of names in this > format, this is essentially an entry with an empty name.) > > The current ar code generates this entry and sets the timestamp > around line 624 of usr.bin/ar/write.c. > > As far as I can tell, ar itself doesn't care about the timestamp here; > it's possible that ranlib or ld do care. If they don't, we could set > this timestamp to zero always.
Yeah, I had a look at the code too. I was thinking maybe it would help to add a modifier to replace timestamps, uids and gids with '0' when inserting a file, to respect POLA. Thanks, Erik
