Preserve file attributes while copying with 'extra-resource' option

[ma-sattari]

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Problem Description

According to file usage.txt when using extra-resource option in build time you use fs-extra package to copy extra resources to target folder. However, the attributes of file is cleared after copy operation is done. We have an executable C file with (rwx rwx r--) bits set. When file is copied to target directory executable attribute of file is removed and we are not able to execute it within electron.

Proposed Solution

According to this file from Copy Usage fs-extra package you may pass a preserveTimestamps <boolean> option when calling copy function like this: copy(src, dest[, options][, callback]). According to this code snippet copy.js when using this option we may preserve mode in addition to Timestamps. Updating this code in your repo platform.js and adding the preserveTimestamps option will add the capability to preserve both Timestamps and mode in the target directory.

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[yangannyx]

Are you still running into this issue @ma-sattari? Looking at this line in fs-extra's copy.js, it seems like the destination file is always set to the same mode as the source file.