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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 30 points 8 months ago

So doesn't the user have to add +x to run this?

[-] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 29 points 8 months ago

It never occurred to me before reading this comment that there actually is a use case for the execute permission. To me it was always just this annoying thing I have to do whenever I download an executable which I didn't have to do on Windows.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Fun fact, Windows has the same permission it just defaults to enabled.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No because the zip archive retains permissions of the contained files.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 35 points 8 months ago

Hm, maybe there should be an option to always disable the executable permission when extracting

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That's perhaps possible, but likely would have to be implemented in each achieving tools individually.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago
[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Zip too? I thought only on Windows, while tar retains unix permissions.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All archive formats do it, afaik.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 8 months ago

But i'm sure there was an issue somewhile ago, because zip only preserves Windows permissions...

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's a bunch of zip implementations(Info-Zip, Gzip, 7-Zip, PKZip, Pigz, etc.), so perhaps an older version of one of the implementations didn't support preserving the Linux executable permission in the past.

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