[SMB3 POSIX] POSIX client creates a file, set the ARCHIVE bit or not

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 04:03:29PM +0100, Ralph Boehme wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I just stumpled over our old SMB1 UNIX extensions code dealing with 
>file creation in POSIX context. There we have in open_file_ntcreate():
>
>        if (new_dos_attributes & FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS) {
>                posix_open = True;
>                unx_mode = (mode_t)(new_dos_attributes & 
>~FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS);
>                new_dos_attributes = 0;
>        } else {
>                ...
>                new_dos_attributes |= FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE;
>                ...
>        }
>
>Why don't we set ARCHIVE for files created in POSIX context? Makes no 
>sense to me.

I *think* it was back from when most servers were running
without EA's, so archive was mapped to a POSIX perms bit.