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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>,
	Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git: continue alias lookup on EACCES errors
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:40:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328184014.GA8982@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1uocwpap.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> Example: when I try
>>
>>  :; mkdir $HOME/cannotread
>>  :; chmod -x $HOME/cannotread
>>  :; echo nonsense >$HOME/bin/cat
>>  :; chmod -x $HOME/bin/cat
>>  :; PATH=$HOME/cannotread:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
>>  :; cat /etc/fstab
>>
>> the shell uses /bin/cat without complaint.
>
> Yeah, but I think that the case Peff is worried about is:
>
>         $ >~/bin/nosuch
>         $ nosuch
>         nosuch: Permission denied

Just remembering the EACCES and reporting it when no alias exists
would take care of that, no?  In other words, this seems analogous
to the example of a non-executable "cat" that is reported if no
other cat exists but does not prevent /bin/cat from being run.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-28 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-26 23:48 Bug? Bad permissions in $PATH breaks Git aliases James Pickens
2012-03-27  3:19 ` Jeff King
2012-03-27  7:25   ` James Pickens
2012-03-27 15:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 17:59     ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 18:04       ` [PATCH 1/2] run-command: propagate EACCES errors to parent Jeff King
2012-03-27 18:24         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 18:33           ` Jeff King
2012-03-27 18:05       ` [PATCH 2/2] git: continue alias lookup on EACCES errors Jeff King
2012-03-27 19:16         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28  4:30           ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 17:42             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 17:48               ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 18:04                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 18:31                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 18:40                     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-03-28 19:39                       ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 19:45                         ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 20:18                           ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 20:37                             ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 20:51                               ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 20:52                                 ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 20:42                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 20:51                               ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 21:01                                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-28 21:25                                   ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 21:30                               ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-28 20:43                             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 21:04                               ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 21:44                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 21:57                             ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 22:07                               ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 22:18                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-29 11:31                               ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-29 17:20                                 ` Jeff King
2012-03-29 17:23                                   ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-28 19:38                     ` Jeff King
2012-03-28 18:29                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28 19:40                   ` Jeff King
2012-03-29 11:16                     ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-29 17:15                       ` Jeff King
2012-03-29 17:21                         ` Frans Klaver
2012-03-27  6:14 ` Bug? Bad permissions in $PATH breaks Git aliases Johannes Sixt
2012-03-27  7:37   ` James Pickens
2012-03-27 15:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 17:48       ` James Pickens
2012-03-27 18:03         ` Junio C Hamano

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