> Solaris contains some special code which allows people to mark jar > files executable and run them as if they were native commands. It > will only work for jars that contain the sequence 0xCAFE (in > big-endian order) somewhere at the beginning, which is achieved by > adding an extra field with that header id. > > See <https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32649> > > This is the already existing JarMarker extra field in compress. > > Ant's <jar> task adds this extra field to the META-INF directory > because it knows this is always going to be the very first entry for > Ant created jars. > > I propose to modify JarArchiveOutputStream to add a JarMarker extra > field to the very first entry written to the stream.
Makes sense +1 cheers -- Torsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
