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  1. Commons Compress
  2. COMPRESS-136

Create common POSIXArchiveEntry for use with tar/cpio/dump

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Open
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • None
    • 2.0
    • Archivers

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      There's currently a top-level ArchiveEntry but many archivers are for POSIX (or POSIX-like) filesystems with standard attributes - ownership, permissions, access times, etc. By creating a common ArchiveEntry class for these attributes it will be much easier to write archive-agnostic extraction software. (Many of the existing methods should be marked 'deprecated' but left in place indefinitely.)

      I have a prototype of this class in my dump patch.

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        1. COMPRESS-136-Owner.patch
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          Stefan Bodewig

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