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Re: supporting deterministic 'ar'
> Alternatively, you could punt the problem to the user, and add a
> --timestamp=str option, where str is a getdate()-compatible date
> string. (And add --uid=n and --gid=n options as well. That would solve
> your problem of what to call the option.)
Oh, and what about the file mode? It's probably a good idea to force
that to a standard value (100444? 100644? 100640? 100600?).
-cary