[Filesystems-devel] Bug#794096: squashfs-tools: please add --numeric-uid-gid to unsquashfs

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Package: squashfs-tools
Version: 4.2+20130409-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

My understanding is that squashfs stores a numeric UID and GID for each
files. When called with `-lls`, unsquashfs will then try to resolve
these numeric values to the corresponding system user and group (using
getpwuid(3) and getgrgid(3)).

This means that depending on the system on which an image is examined,
the output of `unsquashfs` will differ. Sadly, there is currently no way
to force `unsquashfs` to directly display the numeric values. Adding a
`--numeric-uid-gid` (like cpio) or `--numeric-owner` (like Tar) option
would be greatly appreciated.

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