perchef wrote: [Sybren Stuvel:] >>ZIP doesn't store file permissions.
Yes, the .zip file format does store file permissions appropriate to the platform that generates the file. > ok, but in that case how could stuffit retrieve these permissions ? > > Thanks for the link Robert. When one makes a .zip file using ZipFile, the permissions are stored, but there is also a flag that tells unzip utilities what system the .zip file was made on. ZipFile always stores this flag as MS Windows no matter what system actually made it. StuffIt seems to ignore the flag and always propagate the permissions when it unzips. It assumes that the .zip file was made on a Mac. InfoZip's unzip(1) utility does look at the flag, and if it says "MS Windows", it does not propagate the permissions. If the .zip file actually *were* made on a Windows machine and unzipped on a UNIX-like filesystem, all of the files would be marked executable. I remember this used to happen quite often a few years ago. InfoZip made an arguably incorrect choice (but also a fairly convenient one), but ZipFile's behavior is definitely incorrect. OTOH, I don't know if this has any relevance to the problem that you are seeing. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
