I am trying to understand how file mode bits of extracted files
should be determined by default by pax. My initial expectation,
based on experience with various implementations of pax and tar,
is that when you extract an executable file from an archive, the
extracted file will be executable. For
Hello,
I'm working on an implementation of the pax tool, and am looking
for some clarification of how (if at all) the -s option should
interact with symlink targets.
Here are the relevant parts of the specification that I found:
> -s replstr
> Modify file or archive member names named by
