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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tree-walk: disallow overflowing modes
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:44:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmt67fysf.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4b48877-5b80-e96f-d09f-2fe275f42950@web.de> ("René Scharfe"'s message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:53:56 +0100")

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> ...  It's basically harmless.  Perhaps
> we just need a comment stating that, to contain the urge to "fix" this.

Yeah, especially since fsck finds and warns about bad mode with
FSCK_MSG_BAD_FILEMODE and also FSCK_MSG_ZERO_PADDED_FILEMODE in a
separate codepath, adding another piece of code that checks a
slightly different condition does not sound like a good idea.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-24 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-21  9:36 [PATCH] tree-walk: disallow overflowing modes René Scharfe
2023-01-22  7:50 ` Jeff King
2023-01-22 10:03   ` René Scharfe
2023-01-22 16:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-22 22:02     ` Jeff King
2023-01-23  8:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-24 18:53   ` René Scharfe
2023-01-24 20:44     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-01-26 11:36       ` Jeff King

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