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On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:28:36PM +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> I'm wondering if this is necessary, or if this can possibly be turned
> of with a knob somewhere.

Newer binutils got a flag after a discussion about this and related
issues in NetBSD. It basically stores 0 for the uid/gid/time fields.

Joerg