Re: bin/49798: unzip: Infozip compatibility: file permissions

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/49798; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/49798: unzip: Infozip compatibility: file permissions
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:13:51 +0200

 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:00:00AM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > When unpacking zip files, NetBSD unzip is rather permissive and adds
 > e.g. executable bits to files. (The code is trying to work around issues
 > with included directories that don't have the x bit set and corresponding problems
 > when files should be unpacked there.)
 
 That's only for directories and not for files. For files, the frontend uses
 whatever is in the zipfile. The backend on the other defaults to 0777
 for now, which also makes sense as zip files behave like MSDOS file
 systems in that regard...
 
 Joerg