Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
>  > The mtree-like specfiles use names, and pax uses names, so we don't
>  > actually do UID lookups for that purpose. The one problem is that
>  > makefs needs the ability to point at a password file to pick the uids
>  > for the file system it creates.
> 
> Right, but the tar files themselves have numbers, right?

ustar now includes "uname" and "gname" fields which are 32 byte
character arrays.

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