bug#43827: #42223 patch

[Ruthra Kumar]

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On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 9:49 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
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> Ruthra Kumar <ruthrab@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Fixed the bug. It's now able to list and extract files from archive.
>
> Thanks; I was unable to try it because it seems like the patch was
> mangled during transport again.  Can you re-send it as an attachment?
>
> > There is 1 edge case. If you press 'e' or 'RET' on a directory, the
> > expected behaviour is the message 'Entry is not a regular member of
> > archive'. Here, it tries to extract it as a file, cause
> > 'archive-get-descr' fails to determine the type of the entry using
> > 'mode' attribute. I face similar issues on RAR archive files as well.
> >
> > I suspect the 'mode' is not an exact integer representation of file
> > permissions. Need more details on the 'mode' attribute of class
> >
> > Currently, the 'mode' value for squashfs is calculated from the file
> > permissions outputted by 'unsquashfs -ll'.
> > Ex: "-rwxrwxr-x" -> #o775
>
> Right.  That should be fixed, but if the same issue is present in .rar
> files, too, then doing so before integrating probably isn't necessary.
>
> > Yes, i'm willing to assign copyright to Free Software Foundation. Let
> > me know the procedure.
>
> Sent off-list.
>
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