* David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-26 16:45]: > I think it would be a good idea for CPANTS to check that > directories have the x bits set.
++ > This would either be a new metric +=0 > or could be rolled into 'extracts_nicely' ++ > or could be combined with 'no_symlinks' and called > 'uses_portable_filesystem_features' or something similar. -- It doesn’t have to do with filesystem features, it has to do with OS permission semantics. You can mount FAT32 and NTFS in unixoid systems and likewise mount ext2/3 in Windows, and a sufficiently abled tool could then correctly extract archives preserving non- portable features, but the permission semantics don’t carry over correctly anyway because the respective kernels are not able to convey them. The `extracts_nicely` metric is the right place for this, IMO. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
