As of binutils 2.36, GNU strip calls chown(2) for "sudo strip foo" and
"sudo strip foo -o foo", but no "sudo strip foo -o bar" or "sudo strip
foo -o ./foo". In other words, while "sudo strip foo -o bar" creates a
new file bar with root access, "sudo strip foo" will keep the owner and
group of foo unchanged. Currently llvm-objcopy and llvm-strip behave
differently, always changing the owner and gropu to root. The
discrepancy prevents Chrome OS from migrating to llvm-objcopy and
llvm-strip as they change file ownership and cause intended users/groups
to lose access when invoked by sudo with the following sequence
(recommended in man page of GNU strip).
1.<Link the executable as normal.>
1.<Copy "foo" to "foo.full">
1.<Run "strip --strip-debug foo">
1.<Run "objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=foo.full foo">
This patch makes llvm-objcopy and llvm-strip follow GNU's behavior.
Link: crbug.com/1108880
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