PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

[Danek Duvall]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:37:37AM -0500, James Carlson 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?

That would certainly be a useful enhancement, but this case is intended to
integrate p7zip as-is, without modification.  Feel free to engage the
upstream maintainer to find out if he would be willing to accept patches or
do the work.

Danek