Permissions lost when using attachedOutputs

[pn-santos]

New feature, improvement proposal

When attachedOutputs are specified, if the attached files have exec permissions that permission will be lost when restoring from cache.

I believe this is a limitation inherent to zip (the archive used to keep attachedOutputs).

Would it be possible to switch the archive to tar -p? Not sure how important the compression is as a feature but at the very least make it configurable per attached output?

was unsure whether to open as a bug or feature (since this could very well be "by design") so defaulting to enhancement

[cowwoc]

While this issue is about permissions, PR #387 addresses a related ZIP archive limitation: timestamp preservation.

Both issues stem from limitations in how the extension's ZIP implementation handles file metadata:

• This issue (Permissions lost when using attachedOutputs #214): File permissions not preserved
• PR Fix timestamp preservation when extracting cached files #387: File/directory timestamps not preserved

The timestamp fix in PR #387 modifies CacheUtils.zip() and CacheUtils.unzip() to properly handle directory timestamps. A similar approach could potentially be used to preserve file permissions using ZIP's external file attributes, though that would require additional work.

[cowwoc]

I've pushed #392 which should fix this issue.