PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

[James Carlson]

Joerg Schilling writes:
> James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> 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?
> 
> star will do this soon..... it already allows to archive and restore the *BSD
> extended file flags.

Can we _please_ stay on topic here?  The topic is an architectural
review of "7z."

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