ZipEntry

[Alan Snyder]

My immediate interest is symlinks.

  Alan

> On Dec 13, 2023, at 1:55 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 12/12/2023 20:17, Alan Snyder wrote:
>> ZipEntry is a public class and I am aware that it is used outside the JDK. Presumably that is not a problem.
>> 
>> I’m wondering why the class stores the external file attributes field but does not provide public accessors for it.
>> 
>> I would find it useful to have access to this field. I would rather not have to switch to using a third party library just for this reason.
>> 
>> I understand that the interpretation of the external file attributes is not standardized, but the field itself is defined in the standard
>> cited by the package info page, so I don’t see the harm in making it accessible without interpretation.
> 
> It might be useful if you would expand a bit on what your usage is. Is it file permissions, symbolic links, or something else?
> 
> -Alan