Hi all, A fairly common (and documented) gripe with filesystem tasks is that they tend to ignore or lose Unix file permissions. I've had a look at workarounds for this, and have found that the jna-posix library (originally developed for JRuby) provides useful APIs for interacting with file permissions as best as possible from current levels of Java. The library attempts to invoke standard native functions over JNA if possible, and falls back Java APIs (which can only approximate permissions) if no suitable linkage is available.
Here's a patch which modifies the Copy and Zip tasks to preserve permissions, using jna-posix : https://gist.github.com/792062. Is this approach worth considering to make Ant's core tasks play better with file permissions? Cheers, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
