My immediate interest is symlinks. Alan
> On Dec 13, 2023, at 1:55 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 12/12/2023 20:17, Alan Snyder wrote: >> ZipEntry is a public class and I am aware that it is used outside the JDK. >> Presumably that is not a problem. >> >> I’m wondering why the class stores the external file attributes field but >> does not provide public accessors for it. >> >> I would find it useful to have access to this field. I would rather not have >> to switch to using a third party library just for this reason. >> >> I understand that the interpretation of the external file attributes is not >> standardized, but the field itself is defined in the standard >> cited by the package info page, so I don’t see the harm in making it >> accessible without interpretation. > > It might be useful if you would expand a bit on what your usage is. Is it > file permissions, symbolic links, or something else? > > -Alan
