On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:37:37AM -0500, James Carlson wrote: > Danek Duvall writes: > > As a caution to anyone who uses 7z, it is not useful as a general > > purpose archiver on unix systems, as it does not store user and > > group permissions. This is thanks to its Windows heritage. > > However, there is no issue with its usage for compression of > > individual files. > > With Windows heritage, shouldn't this feature eventually support the > PSARC 2007/315 interfaces used by the CIFS server?
That would certainly be a useful enhancement, but this case is intended to integrate p7zip as-is, without modification. Feel free to engage the upstream maintainer to find out if he would be willing to accept patches or do the work. Danek
