Well, it's been a total failure

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/14/10 16:14 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
> retard wrote:
>> The difference is, on *nix the disabled executable flag prevents *all
>> users* from launching the application. The attributes have a standard
>> meaning.
>
> No, the meanings are not standard between Windows and Linux. There's no
> way to make them standard, either. The file systems are *different*.
>
>
>> *nix also has the 'hidden flag' in form of files with names starting
>> with a dot.
>
> A filename convention is not a file attribute bit, and there's no way to
> pretend they are the same in a portable archiver.
>
>
>> The S, H, and A attributes don't have any use when shipping 3rd party
>> userspace applications.
>
> That's up to the distributor. I don't like 'em and don't use 'em, but
> I'd support them properly if I was writing a file packager/unpackager.
>
> The right solution is supported by the zip file format - there are
> separate attribute fields for unix and Windows. The unzipper follows
> them, it's just that the zipper offers no way to set them for systems
> other than the one the zipper is run on.

What flags do you need to set specifically for Windows?

Andrei