From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Default "tar" umask..
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:20:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3irfizwvv.fsf@defiant.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmz4xdssh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:15:26 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> If the archive is made with 022, that would
> break expectation of users whose umask is 002 (a sane value in
> modern "own" group setups).
What exactly do they expect from 002? That root group will be able
to write to the files?
002 umasks and per-user groups were created, IIRC, purely as as ACL
substitute. I wonder how many people really need anything like
that, especially human people (not news.news things and root.uucp
/dev/ttyS*). I guess not very many.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-07 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-30 18:45 Default "tar" umask Linus Torvalds
2006-12-30 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 20:39 ` René Scharfe
2007-01-05 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-05 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-07 15:20 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2007-01-07 21:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-05 22:30 ` René Scharfe
2007-01-05 22:40 ` Junio C Hamano
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