On 9/14/10 16:14 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
retard wrote:
The difference is, on *nix the disabled executable flag prevents *all
users* from launching the application. The attributes have a standard
meaning.
No, the meanings are not standard between Windows and Linux. There's no
way to make them standard, either. The file systems are *different*.
*nix also has the 'hidden flag' in form of files with names starting
with a dot.
A filename convention is not a file attribute bit, and there's no way to
pretend they are the same in a portable archiver.
The S, H, and A attributes don't have any use when shipping 3rd party
userspace applications.
That's up to the distributor. I don't like 'em and don't use 'em, but
I'd support them properly if I was writing a file packager/unpackager.
The right solution is supported by the zip file format - there are
separate attribute fields for unix and Windows. The unzipper follows
them, it's just that the zipper offers no way to set them for systems
other than the one the zipper is run on.
What flags do you need to set specifically for Windows?
Andrei
