From: Alex Mauer <hawke@hawkesnest.net>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al.
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 02:02:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1ug20$d29$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3d607cc0705071116i6937d5e2v8b4068e3117d5fa@mail.gmail.com>
Bart Oldeman wrote:
>
> It's an internal DOSEMU problem, and an old one at that!
> The problem is that DOSEMU emulates the "archive" DOS attribute
> through the user x bit. Very few DOS programs attempt to set or reset
> the archive attribute on directories, but pkunzip 2.50 does.
>
Would it make sense to use extended attributes for this where XA is
available? Or am I misunderstanding something vital?
-Alex Mauer "hawke"
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-10 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-07 16:17 Creating directories with pkunzip, rar, et. al Joe Ripley
2007-05-07 18:16 ` Bart Oldeman
2007-05-07 18:37 ` Joe Ripley
2007-05-07 22:12 ` Joe Ripley
2007-05-08 1:45 ` Bart Oldeman
2007-05-08 1:56 ` Mike McCarty
2007-05-08 18:33 ` Bart Oldeman
2007-05-08 20:42 ` Mike McCarty
2007-05-08 3:15 ` Joe Ripley
2007-05-10 7:02 ` Alex Mauer [this message]
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