PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

[Darren J Moffat]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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.

Jim's comment was completely on topic for ARC review of 7z.  The project 
team said 7z has Windows heritage and Jim pointed out a Windows 
filesystem related ARC case.

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Darren J Moffat