PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Mon Nov 5 04:37:37 PST 2007


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?

If it's a well-known Windows thing, I'd expect it to work with other
Windows-related bits in Solaris.

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