PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

[Joerg Schilling]

James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote:

> 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."

Please stay on topic.....you started this off-topic thread.

Your question has already been answered: If you talk to the upstream maintainer,
go ahead.

Jörg

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