[Buildroot] Patchwork cleanup #8: submitter notification

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:09:05 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> However, I can se one case where we would want to be able to set
> ownership and/or permissions on a synlink: to avoid the identity of the
> "builder" to seep down into the generated filesystem. But even in that
> case, only the numerical UID would end up in the generated filesystem,
> so it is not really a concern.

We do a "chown -R 0:0" on all files in the root filesystem, before
taking into account device tables. So I don't see how an ownership on
the build machine can leak into the generated root filesystem.

See fs/common.mk to see where's it's done.

Best regards,

Thomas
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