Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: feature request: 'tla chmod' which 'touch'es files

[Aaron Bentley]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > Files must be able to be publicly readable when in an arch archive.
> >
> > In an arch archive, sure, but the working directories just need to be
> > in whatever shape the user wants to edit them in.
>
>
> Exactly.
>
> And so how do you propose to achieve that, if permissions are not
> stored separately to the file?

Archives don't store the files themselves, they store changesets and tar 
files.  Both have adequate mechanisms for recording file permissions.

Aaron