PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

[James Carlson]

Danek Duvall writes:
> 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.

OK.  If there's any chance for such confusion with Windows attributes,
then I'd suggest at least a note to the contrary as part of the
documentation delivered with the project.

Otherwise, no, I'm not going to go off and implement this.  :-/

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