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authorAlex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>2021-04-11 13:54:00 -0400
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ overlayfs mounts.
Features
--------
-- minimal requirements (sh, mount, getopt, stat)
+- minimal requirements (sh, mount, getopt)
Benefits over manually calling ``mkdir /tmp/x; mount ...``
@@ -39,7 +39,5 @@ POSIX-only shells:
- ``mount -t overlay`` is obviously required
- ``getopt --`` is required for proper handling of options containing spaces
-- ``stat -c`` is required to obtain upperdir owner and permissions, because
- parsing ls -l is ridiculous.
- ``getfattr`` is used for xattr copying but in case of failure, the system is
assumed to not support xattrs and setfattr is skipped.