Re: XPI Install File Permissions

Sailfish <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpinstall
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martin Hassman wrote:
> Sailfish <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]: 
> 
> 
>>I use the standard XPI Install procedures for installing a theme. I've
>>recently been informed that the installer copies the theme's *.jar
>>file to the target folder with full write permissions, i.e., 666 in 
>>Unix-speak. I build the theme *.xpi using Win98SE which does not have 
>>the ability to set file permissions, which I believe may be part of
>>the problem (meaning, I believe Win98SE defaults to 666 when installed
>>on systems that have permissions?)
>>
>>Does mozilla offer a procedure call that can be added to the install 
>>script that can set file permissions in a cross-platform way to, say,
>>644? 
>>
> 
> 
> Look at
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189905
> 
martin, I've cc'd and voted for it ... thanks.

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