Created attachment 141508 [details]
ZIP file to check whether ark preserves folder permissions

This is the structure of a directory:

$ sudo tree -ps
.
├── [d--------- 4096] Peppo
│   ├── [-rw------- 2] Archivo de texto.txt
│   ├── [----rw---- 7390] LibreOffice Calc.ods
│   └── [d--------- 4096] zeppo
│   └── [-r-------- 111] Archivo HTML.html

2 directories, 3 files

Then, I run this command (I need root privileges to overcome permissions)

$ sudo zip -r kk.zip Peppo/

I have run "zipinfo" and the permissions are OK inside "kk.zip".

Whenever I extract the whole structure of "kk.zip" with ark (with dialog, i.e. graphics, with Dolphin's contextual menu, from console --running "ark --batch kk.zip"--), permissions of all the directories are **not** kept. Instead, all of the directories are created using system's umask (in my case 027, so permissions are rwxr-x--- for folders "Peppo" and "zeppo"). The permissions of all the files are OK (they are kept).

If I use "unzip" from the command line (unzip kk.zip), however, all of the permissions (directories and files) are perfectly kept.

This is annoying since there is no way to tell ark that the original permissions of directories must be kept when decompressing. Moreover, I think that the default behavior of ark should be the same as "unzip", that is, keeping the original permissions of both directories and files.

I think this is a bug because, in fact, ark preserves permissions when extracting files but not the directories. It seems that directories are not extracted but created.

You can even also try with the ZIP file attached to this report.

$ zipinfo prueba.zip 
Archive:  prueba.zip
Zip file size: 237341 bytes, number of entries: 6
d---------  3.0 unx        0 bx stor 19-Sep-04 18:16 Pruebas/
-rw-------  3.0 unx   192479 bx defN 04-Oct-04 13:18 Pruebas/Madrid_-_Valencia.jpg
-r--r-----  3.0 unx    44815 bx defN 04-Oct-04 13:21 Pruebas/p1_boletin windows04-05.sxw
-rw-r-----  3.0 unx    10240 bx defN 04-Oct-04 13:24 Pruebas/Plan-Curso.xls
----------  3.0 unx     1032 tx defN 04-Oct-04 13:19 Pruebas/nombres.txt
-rw-------  3.0 unx      138 tx defN 19-Sep-04 18:16 Pruebas/.directory
6 files, 248704 bytes uncompressed, 236289 bytes compressed:  5.0%

Permissions of folder "Pruebas" are not kept when extracting/decompressing with ark. If "unzip" is used instead permissions of folder "Pruebas" are preserved as expected.

Thanks a lot in advance for your consideration.