fix: unpack AppleDouble sidecars instead of extracting them as files - #190
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Picks up `zip/appledouble.zip` (MacPacker-TestArchives#2), the fixture for issue #189: a macOS zip stores a file's extended attributes and resource fork in a sibling `._name` file, and writing that out as an ordinary file adds a file to the extracted tree — inside a signed `.app` it breaks the code-signature seal and macOS calls the app damaged. The archive holds two genuine sidecars, stored on opposite sides of their target, plus two decoys that must survive untouched: a plain-text file that merely starts with `._` and whose sibling exists, and a real AppleDouble with no sibling at all.
When macOS cannot keep a file's extended attributes and resource fork in place — a FAT stick, an SMB share — it splits them into a sibling `._name` file in AppleDouble format. From that point the sidecar is an ordinary file on disk, so any archiver walking the folder stores it. The 7-Zip engine wrote it straight back out, which adds an entry to the extracted tree; inside a signed `.app` that breaks the code-signature seal and macOS reports the app as damaged. Closes #189. Nothing about this is zip-specific. The bridge now resolves sidecars per entry, so every format it reads is covered — tar and 7z carry the same sidecars, and both were verified. `SetOperationResult` records extracted entries whose name starts with `._`; they cannot be resolved as they arrive, because a sidecar may be stored before the entry it describes (`._x` sorts before `x`, so that is the order an archiver walking a tree tends to produce). `finishExtract`, already shared by all three `sz_extract_*` paths, drains the list once everything is on disk. `copyfile(3)` with COPYFILE_UNPACK does the decoding, so there is no AppleDouble parser here. It also decides what is a sidecar at all: `._` is a naming convention, not a reservation, and a real file that merely starts with those two characters fails the unpack and stays put. Two further guards keep the destructive half honest — the entry a sidecar describes must already exist as a regular file or directory, because copyfile creates a missing destination rather than failing and would conjure a file the archive never held; and the sidecar is unlinked only once copyfile reports success. Symlinks are excluded as targets: copyfile follows them and would write through to whatever they point at. Failures are silent. Anything not unpacked is left exactly where extraction wrote it, so the worst case is the previous behaviour rather than a failed extraction. Bumps MacPacker-TestArchives for `zip/appledouble.zip`, which carries three genuine sidecars — one stored before its target, one after, one describing a directory — plus two decoys that must survive: a plain-text file that merely starts with `._` and whose sibling exists, and a real AppleDouble with no sibling at all.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughmacOS extraction now tracks newly created paths and applies AppleDouble metadata only to eligible extraction-owned targets. It preserves quarantine metadata when possible. Regression tests cover pre-existing files, directories, sidecars, and repeated extraction. The changelog documents the fix. ChangesAppleDouble extraction
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change removes genuine AppleDouble sidecars while preserving decoys, but current extraction logic still has filesystem-safety and metadata-integrity gaps: concurrent directory creation or symlinked parents can redirect metadata updates, and failed quarantine restoration can still allow sidecar removal. These issues can modify user-owned paths or leave extracted content with incorrect protection metadata, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Extraction as sevenzip_bridge.cpp
participant Finish as finishExtract
participant Target as Extraction-owned target
participant CopyFile as copyfile
Extraction->>Extraction: Record newly created paths and sidecars
Extraction->>Finish: Pass the extraction-owned path set
Finish->>Target: Read quarantine xattr
Finish->>CopyFile: Unpack the AppleDouble sidecar
CopyFile-->>Finish: Return unpack status
Finish->>Target: Restore or remove quarantine xattr
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In `@Config/products/macpacker.json`:
- Line 77: Update the Korean translation for the “reported as damaged” message
in the macpacker localization entry to use the idiomatic wording “손상된 것으로 표시됨”,
keeping the translation concise and leaving other locales unchanged.
In `@Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp`:
- Around line 474-481: Update the sidecar handling around the lstat and copyfile
calls to reject any symlinked parent component between _destDir and target,
validating each path component without following symlinks. Protect the
validation-to-copy sequence against replacement of validated directories, using
the existing destination-root context and preserving the current
regular-file/directory checks and sidecar cleanup behavior.
- Around line 558-562: Update Archive7ZipEngine.extract(items:) to include each
selected file’s valid AppleDouble companion in the indices passed to 7-Zip,
while excluding companion sidecars from the returned URLs. Preserve existing
symlink and path validation behavior, and add a regression test covering
selection of icon.png without ._icon.png.
- Around line 473-481: Update the sidecar-processing logic in the extraction
flow around lstat and copyfile to track paths successfully extracted as regular
files or directories, and only apply/remove a sidecar when its target appears in
that set; do not treat merely pre-existing filesystem entries as extracted. Add
a regression test covering a pre-existing orphan.bin with a corresponding
._orphan.bin sidecar.
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In Apple copyfile(3), do COPYFILE_NOFOLLOW_SRC and COPYFILE_NOFOLLOW_DST prevent traversal through symlinked parent path components, or only prevent following a source or destination that is itself a symlink?
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In Apple's copyfile(3), the flags COPYFILE_NOFOLLOW_SRC and COPYFILE_NOFOLLOW_DST are specifically defined to prevent the library from following a symbolic link if the source or destination path itself is a symbolic link [1][2]. They do not inherently prevent traversal through symlinked components in the parent path [1][2]. When these flags are used, copyfile performs operations on the symlink file itself (e.g., copying the link rather than the target) [2][3], but the operating system's standard path resolution (which follows symbolic links in the directory path) still applies to the directory components leading up to the final file [4]. For example, if you provide a source path like /path/to/link/file, and /path/to/link is a symbolic link to another directory, the system must resolve that symlink to reach the intended file [4]. The COPYFILE_NOFOLLOW_* flags govern the behavior only at the final component of the provided paths [2]. If you require protection against symlink-based path traversal attacks involving parent directories, you must handle that separately, often by using file descriptor-based APIs (like openat(2) or copyfile_state_set with file descriptors) to ensure you are operating within a constrained filesystem context [5][4].
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- 1: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man3/copyfile.3.html
- 2: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/copyfile.3.html
- 3: Regression: copyfile on macOS copies symbolic links libuv/libuv#3940
- 4: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/copyfile/blob/ed3f0a8bf8b6bac6838c92c297afcc826fec75f4/copyfile.c
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Reject symlinked parent directories before copyfile.
lstat(target) checks only the final component. It follows symlinks in parent components, and the current copyfile flags do not prevent this traversal. An archive-controlled sidecar can therefore apply metadata outside _destDir.
Validate every component below _destDir without following symlinks. Protect the validation-to-copy operation from path replacement.
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In `@Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp` around lines 474 - 481, Update
the sidecar handling around the lstat and copyfile calls to reject any symlinked
parent component between _destDir and target, validating each path component
without following symlinks. Protect the validation-to-copy sequence against
replacement of validated directories, using the existing destination-root
context and preserving the current regular-file/directory checks and sidecar
cleanup behavior.
The sidecar drain checked that the entry a sidecar describes exists on disk, which is not the same as it being ours. The destination is not always empty: "Extract here" writes straight into a folder of the user's own files, and "Extract to folder" calls createDirectory(withIntermediateDirectories: true), which succeeds silently on a folder a previous run already filled. Only ArchiveExtractor.extract(batch:) stages through a fresh temp directory; extractAll writes to the user's destination directly. So an archive holding `._orphan.bin` but no `orphan.bin`, extracted into a folder that happened to have an `orphan.bin` of its own, folded this archive's metadata into the user's file and deleted the sidecar — a file the extraction never wrote, quietly modified. The callback now records what it creates: files as they finish, directories as CreateComplexDir makes them. Directories need the whole chain, not just the level asked for, because a sidecar can describe a grandparent — `._Contents` next to `Contents/Resources/` — and CreateComplexDir made those levels too. Walking up stops at the first level already recorded, since everything above it was recorded with it. A sidecar is folded in only when its target is in that set, so a pre-existing file is left exactly as it was found. The existing lstat check stays: the set says the extraction made it, lstat says it is still a regular file or directory rather than a symlink. Costs one set insert per entry, ~306 ns — 0.4 ms across this archive's 1217 entries, 31 ms across 100k, against a per-entry file create, decompress, write and close.
The pre-existing-orphan check added with the previous fix is coupled to one filename that happened to be known dangerous. This states the invariant behind it instead: an extraction owns what it writes and nothing else. Post-processing passes are where that breaks, because they run over paths rather than over the stream they just wrote — which is exactly how the AppleDouble drain reached a file the archive never carried. Plants four bystanders the archive never names, in the directories the extraction writes into, and asserts each comes out byte-identical and free of the archive's metadata. The `._userfile.dat` / `userfile.dat` pair is the sharp one: a complete AppleDouble pair the user already had, which an extractor working from names rather than from what it wrote would fold together and delete half of. Verified it fails without the extractedPaths guard. Not about name collisions: an entry matching a file already in the destination does replace it, the same as `ditto` does. That behaviour is deliberate and needs a product decision rather than a test pinning it in place.
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639-646: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winOmit consumed AppleDouble sidecars from extraction results.
unpackAppleDoubleSidecarsremoves successfully unpacked sidecars, butSevenZipArchive.extract(indices:)returns every requested path. Track and omit only consumed sidecar entries. Extend the regression test to assert that removed sidecars are absent while decoys remain.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp`:
- Around line 313-319: Update the extraction tracking around CreateComplexDir so
extractedPaths records only directories actually created during the current
extraction, not existing directories or their ancestors. Preserve tracking for
newly created paths and update the existing directory-sidecar test to verify
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In `@Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp`:
- Around line 639-646: Update finishExtract and the extraction-result flow to
track which entries unpackAppleDoubleSidecars successfully consumes, then omit
only those sidecar paths from SevenZipArchive.extract(indices:) results while
preserving decoy entries and other requested paths. Extend the regression test
to assert consumed sidecars are absent and decoys remain.
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In `@Modules/Tests/CoreTests/EngineTests.swift`:
- Around line 370-398: Update the bystander setup in the extraction test to
create a valid AppleDouble sidecar for payload/userfile.dat rather than
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Follow-up to the extractedPaths guard, which had the hole it was meant to close. `CreateComplexDir` is mkdir -p: it reports success on a directory that was already there. The tracking ran after it and walked the whole chain, so extracting into a destination that already contained `Contents/Resources/` recorded the user's directories as ours — and `._Resources` then folded this archive's metadata into one of them and deleted itself. The probe now runs before the directory is created, and only levels that did not exist are recorded. It stops at the first level that already exists or is already ours, since everything above that is settled either way. Costs nothing on the common path: consecutive entries share a directory, so the set lookup hits at 7 ns and returns without touching the filesystem. An lstat (~772 ns) happens only for a level not yet known, which is once per directory the extraction actually brings into being. Extends the non-interference test rather than the sidecar one: planting `payload/Contents/Resources/keepme.png` already makes that directory the user's, so the archive's `._Resources` describes a path the extraction only writes into and must leave alone. Verified both assertions fail without the probe.
The pair planted as "a complete AppleDouble pair the user already had" was
plain text, so the comment described something the test did not do. It passed
for the wrong reason: any implementation reaching those bytes would reject them
on content and leave them alone regardless of whether it had any notion of
ownership.
That matters for the regression this case exists to catch. The drain works from
the list of sidecars it wrote, never from what it finds on disk; an
implementation rewritten to walk the destination instead would fold a pair the
user already had and delete half of it. Plain-text bytes cannot detect that
change — copyfile refuses them either way:
plain text sidecar -> copyfile = -1
COPYFILE_PACK output -> copyfile = 0
So the sidecar is now packed by the same system call that unpacks one, over a
target seeded with its own extended attribute. Both the sidecar bytes and that
attribute are captured before extraction and asserted unchanged after, which is
what makes the case bite.
Adds setExtendedAttribute as the counterpart to the existing
extendedAttribute helper.
COPYFILE_UNPACK replaces a target's extended attributes rather than merging into them, and macOS keeps Gatekeeper's verdict in com.apple.quarantine. So the sidecar drain was handing archives a way to lift it: ship `Evil.app` beside a `._Evil.app` carrying no quarantine, and extracting the archive cleared the quarantine off the bundle. The archive deciding, through metadata alone, that its own contents are trusted. Directories are affected as well as files, which is what makes it reach Gatekeeper -- the quarantine that matters for a bundle sits on the bundle directory. It was already visible in the fix for #189 and I read past it: the file in the reported archive came out of the unpack carrying provenance and lastuseddate where it had gone in carrying provenance and quarantine. The value is now read before the unpack and written back after, and what the archive had to say about it is discarded -- absent before means absent after, even when the sidecar supplies one. If it cannot be read for any reason other than not being there, the sidecar is left alone rather than risk clearing it. Extracting twice into one destination is what makes this testable: the second pass reopens the file with O_TRUNC, which keeps the inode and its attributes, so a quarantine set between the passes is still on the file when the sidecar is unpacked over it. The test asserts the sidecar was applied and the quarantine survived it; without the restore, only the first of those holds.
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In `@Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp`:
- Around line 471-474: Replace the CreateComplexDir/fresh recording flow with
destination-root-relative mkdirat calls, inserting each directory level into
extractedPaths only when its mkdirat call successfully creates it; do not record
levels that already exist due to concurrent creation. Add a regression test
covering another process creating a level between the stat and
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- Around line 555-562: Update the sidecar restoration block around copyfile so
setxattr or removexattr success is checked before calling unlink. If quarantine
restoration fails, preserve the sidecar and propagate extraction failure; only
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Record directories only when extraction creates them.
If another process creates a level between lstat() and CreateComplexDir(), line 473 records that user-owned directory in extractedPaths. A matching AppleDouble sidecar can then modify its metadata and delete itself. Use destination-root-relative mkdirat() calls, and record a level only when its call returns success. Add a concurrent-creation regression test.
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In `@Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp` around lines 471 - 474,
Replace the CreateComplexDir/fresh recording flow with destination-root-relative
mkdirat calls, inserting each directory level into extractedPaths only when its
mkdirat call successfully creates it; do not record levels that already exist
due to concurrent creation. Add a regression test covering another process
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| if (copyfile(sidecar.c_str(), target.c_str(), nullptr, | ||
| COPYFILE_UNPACK | COPYFILE_XATTR | COPYFILE_ACL) == 0) { | ||
| if (quarantineLen >= 0) | ||
| setxattr(target.c_str(), kQuarantine, quarantine, | ||
| (size_t)quarantineLen, 0, XATTR_NOFOLLOW); | ||
| else | ||
| removexattr(target.c_str(), kQuarantine, XATTR_NOFOLLOW); | ||
| unlink(sidecar.c_str()); |
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On macOS, the setxattr, fsetxattr, removexattr, and fremovexattr system calls all follow the same return value pattern: they return 0 on success and -1 on failure [1][2][3]. If a failure occurs, the global variable errno is set to provide specific information about the cause [1][2][3]. Common error codes (errno) for these calls include: - ENOATTR: The specified extended attribute does not exist (returned by removexattr or when XATTR_REPLACE is used with setxattr) [1][2]. - EEXIST: The named attribute already exists (returned by setxattr when XATTR_CREATE is used) [1]. - ENOTSUP: The file system does not support extended attributes or has them disabled [1][2]. - EROFS: The file system is mounted read-only [1][2]. - EPERM: The operation is not permitted for the specific object type [1][2]. - EACCES: Permission is denied [1][2]. Regarding copyfile(3), the COPYFILE_UNPACK flag is used to deserialize an AppleDouble-format file [4][5]. When this flag is used, the destination file ("to" file) will have the extended attributes, Access Control Lists (ACLs), resource fork, and FinderInfo data restored from the source file ("from" file) [4][5]. This restoration occurs regardless of the other flags passed in the flags argument [4][5]. Essentially, COPYFILE_UNPACK treats the source file as an archive of metadata and data that is then unpacked into the destination [4][6].
Citations:
- 1: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/setxattr.2.html
- 2: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man2/removexattr.2.html
- 3: https://www.unix.com/man_page/osx/2/fremovexattr/
- 4: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/System/Conceptual/ManPages_iPhoneOS/man3/copyfile.3.html
- 5: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=macOS+10.13.6&query=copyfile&sektion=3
- 6: https://leancrew.com/all-this/man/man3/copyfile.html
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r"if \(copyfile\(sidecar\.c_str\(\), target\.c_str\(\), nullptr,\s*"
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# Model COPYFILE_UNPACK removing the old quarantine, followed by the
# current code's unchecked restoration and unconditional sidecar unlink.
target_has_quarantine = restore_succeeds if had_quarantine else False
sidecar_removed = True
return target_has_quarantine, sidecar_removed
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print("Failure model: existing quarantine is lost and the sidecar is removed.")
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Require successful quarantine restoration before sidecar cleanup.
Check the result of setxattr() or removexattr(). If restoration fails, keep the sidecar and report extraction failure. Remove the sidecar only after the target has the required quarantine state. Add a regression test for restoration failure.
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In `@Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp` around lines 555 - 562, Update
the sidecar restoration block around copyfile so setxattr or removexattr success
is checked before calling unlink. If quarantine restoration fails, preserve the
sidecar and propagate extraction failure; only remove it after the target has
the required quarantine state, and add a regression test covering restoration
failure.
…t quarantine
The previous commit hardcoded com.apple.quarantine, which closed the security
half and left the rest open. COPYFILE_UNPACK replaces the target's extended
attributes rather than merging into them, so everything else the file wore went
with it.
That mattered for files the extraction overwrites. An entry replacing a file
already in the destination is deliberate, the same as `ditto` does, and the
plain write keeps that file's attributes — Finder tags and comments survive an
overwrite. Unless the archive happened to carry a `._` sidecar for that one
path, in which case they did not:
helper (archive has a sidecar for it) -> Finder tag WIPED
notadouble.txt (no sidecar) -> Finder tag SURVIVED
Whether your tags survive is not something an archive should get to decide by
including a metadata file.
So the whole attribute set is captured before the unpack and anything the
sidecar did not supply is put back after. Where both speak, the sidecar wins —
it is describing that very file. Quarantine stays the exception in both
directions: restored even when the sidecar supplies its own, and removed when
there was none to begin with, because it is the system's verdict on where the
file came from rather than anything the archive has standing to state.
If the set cannot be read in full the sidecar is left alone, rather than
running something over the file that cannot be put back.
The test now plants two entries the archive carries — one with a sidecar, one
without — and asserts both keep the user's attribute, the second being the
control for what an overwrite does without a sidecar involved. Verified it fails
with the quarantine-only restore.
`ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc` does not put sidecars beside their files. It mirrors the whole tree under a top-level `__MACOSX/` directory and puts them there. That is what Finder's "Compress" runs, so it is the arrangement most macOS-made zips actually use — and the fix for #189 did nothing for any of them, folding only the inline form. XADMaster has stripped `__MACOSX/` at parse time for years (XADMacArchiveParser.m:203); this closes the same gap. Sidecar paths under `<dest>/__MACOSX/` now map onto the real entry, and the mirror directories are removed afterwards — deepest first, with rmdir, which refuses anything still holding a file. So an archive that genuinely keeps something in a `__MACOSX` folder keeps it, and its tree. Adds two tests, and the second one exists because the first was not enough: - The fixture now carries a sequestered sidecar whose attribute appears nowhere else in the archive. That specificity is the point: the mirror directories are created by the extraction too, so folding onto the mirror instead of the real file produces an identical-looking tree. An assertion about leftover files passes either way — verified, it did. - A differential test against the XADMaster engine over archives real tools produced. Both engines are already in this process, so the comparison costs nothing and covers ground hand-written assertions do not: permissions, symlink targets, extended attributes, every path in the tree. It asserts agreement with an implementation people have relied on for over a decade rather than agreement with this one's author. `appledouble.zip` is deliberately excluded from that comparison. It is synthetic, and one of its edge cases — an archive with no directory entries, which no real tool emits — XADMaster gets wrong. Fixtures like that are what the differential test is there to compensate for. Checked against a corpus built outside the repository: the same signed bundle archived by Finder's Compress, by ditto without sequestering, by Info-ZIP and by 7-Zip's zip writer. Every one extracted to a tree identical to XADMaster's, and where a bundle came out failing codesign, Archive Utility failed it the same way — those archives are lossy, not the extraction.
Bumps MacPacker-TestArchives for `realworld/`: one app bundle archived by Finder's "Compress", by ditto without sequestering, by Info-ZIP and by 7-Zip's zip writer. Same tree in every file, so any difference belongs to the archiver. Everything else written for #189 asserts what this implementation was built to do, which is worth only so much when the same hand wrote the fixture and the code — a hand-written assertion for the __MACOSX handling passed with that handling disabled, and so did the engine comparison, because the sidecars in minimalApp.zip carry nothing restorable. These archives were shaped by nobody here, and the bar for them is agreement with implementations people already trust rather than agreement with this one's author. Two tests over the corpus: - Every archive extracts to the same tree as the XADMaster engine, compared path by path across kind, permissions, symlink targets and extended attribute names. - The two that can carry a bundle intact extract to one codesign accepts — the same judgement #189 was reported as, made by the system. `ditto_inline.zip` and `sevenzip.zip` are excluded from the second: both archivers lose framework version symlinks and Archive Utility fails them the same way, so the bundle is broken before extraction starts. Also verified outside the repository that where a bundle came out failing codesign, Archive Utility failed it identically — three-way agreement between this engine, XADMaster and Apple's own extractor on all four.
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Resolves #189
The bug
The reported archive extracts to a
.appthat macOS calls damaged. Confirmed on the file from the issue — the 7-Zip engine leaves one extra file behind, and that is enough:Archive Utility and the XAD engine both produce a bundle that verifies; the only difference in the whole extracted tree is that one file.
._wd-logo120.pngis an AppleDouble sidecar. When macOS cannot keep a file's extended attributes and resource fork in place — a FAT stick, an SMB share — it splits them out into a sibling._namefile:From that point the sidecar is an ordinary file on disk, so any archiver walking the folder stores it. Nothing about this is zip-specific — the same folder archived as tar, 7z and zip carries the sidecar in all three, and all three were verified against the fix. Written back out as a plain file it adds an entry to the extracted tree, and inside a signed bundle that breaks the code-signature seal.
The fix
Modules/Sources/CSevenZip/sevenzip_bridge.cpp, +78 lines. No change to the vendored 7-Zip submodule.SetOperationResultrecords extracted entries whose name starts with._. They cannot be resolved as they arrive, because a sidecar may be stored before the entry it describes —._xsorts beforex, so that is the order an archiver walking a tree tends to produce.finishExtract, already the shared tail of all threesz_extract_*paths, drains the list once everything is on disk. This is the same choke point that #121 used for symlinks and the exec bit.copyfile(3)withCOPYFILE_UNPACKdoes the decoding, so there is no AppleDouble parser in this diff.Why it does not eat real files
._is a naming convention, not a reservation — a file may legitimately be named that way and hold anything, and deleting on the name alone loses user data.copyfilerejects a source that is not AppleDouble, which makes it the discriminator as well as the decoder: such a file fails the unpack and stays put. Two further guards keep the destructive half honest:copyfilecreates it rather than failing, conjuring a file the archive never contained.copyfilereports success.Symlinks are excluded as targets:
copyfilefollows them and would write through to whatever they point at.Failures are silent by design. Anything not unpacked is left exactly where extraction wrote it, so the worst case is the previous behaviour rather than a failed extraction.
Reference behaviour
Archive Utility is the reference, and it is content-aware, not name-based — in one archive holding both, it consumed a genuine sidecar and kept a plain-text decoy byte-identical.
It is also order-dependent: it unpacks a sidecar the moment it reads it, so a sidecar stored before its target is left on disk. Entry order carries no meaning in a zip, so this fix resolves sidecars after the entries are written and gets both orders right. That is deliberately more than Archive Utility delivers.
Tests
extractionUnpacksAppleDoubleSidecarsAndSparesDecoysinModules/Tests/CoreTests/EngineTests.swift, alongside the #121 symlink test, in the standardswift test --package-path Modulessuite. Fixture iszip/appledouble.zip(MacPacker-TestArchives#2, #3), one archive covering every branch:Contents/Resources/._icon.png(sidecar stored before target)icon.pngContents/MacOS/._helper(sidecar stored after target)helperContents/._Resources(sidecar for a directory)Resources/still a directory, carrying its xattr._notadouble.txt(plain text, sibling exists)._orphan.bin(real AppleDouble, no sibling)orphan.binis conjuredIt also asserts the data fork is untouched — 70 bytes, PNG magic — which catches the wrong
copyfileflags overwriting file contents with the AppleDouble.Verified failing before the fix (6 issues) and passing after. Each guard was checked to have teeth individually: reverting the directory guard alone fails exactly the
._Resourcesassertion.Full suite: 389/389.
The archive from the issue was also driven through the fixed engine directly, with a throwaway test not included here — a 63 MB download is not a fixture:
Performance
The per-entry check measures 38.5 ns — one string copy, an
rfind, a two-byte compare. That is 47 µs across this archive's 1217 entries and 3.9 ms across 100k, against a per-entry cost that already includes a file create, decompression, write and close. The drain does nothing when no sidecars were seen. Collecting during extraction rather than walking the destination afterwards is what keeps it proportional to what was actually written.Deliberately out of scope
Both cosmetic rather than seal-breaking, and each a behaviour change deserving its own issue:
__MACOSX/trees are still extracted verbatim. They land beside a bundle, not inside it, so no signature breaks.._entries still appear in the file list. The bridge already hides 7-Zip alternate streams; AppleDouble sidecars are ordinary entries.Changelog
0.21.0, typefix: Extracted apps reported as damaged, all 15 languages in the file. Translations beyond English are unreviewed placeholders — POEditor overwrites every value includingen.Summary by CodeRabbit