Re: XPInstall and Unix file permissions

Jaagup Irve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into problems when creating a language pack. The problem is that 
> when I install the language pack as root, the file will not be readable 
> to other users due to its permission bits.
> 
> For what I have understood from a bug I found, the installed jar file 
> preserves the permission it was packed with into xpi. I'm unable to zip 
> the 755 permission within Windows, am I?
> 
> Is there a way to tell in install.js to set the file permissions to 
> normal during installation?
> 

If there are no unix-style permissions found in the archive we create the
file with mode 644, or at least that's what the code says. What are you seeing?

-Dan Veditz