Danek Duvall writes: > 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.
OK. If there's any chance for such confusion with Windows attributes, then I'd suggest at least a note to the contrary as part of the documentation delivered with the project. Otherwise, no, I'm not going to go off and implement this. :-/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
