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Subject: Re: get git not to care about permissions
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> It prints an absolute path, so the open() also accesses an absolute
> path (though I don't know why it insists on that).
>
> But the above directory listing would indicate that you do not even
> have permission to look inside your $(pwd) by absolute path...

I'm pretty sure I can.  How can I test this?  I can ls all
subdirectories within the path, and when I navigate to the path, I
usually do it absolutely.  After all, this is a network share, so I
have to start with "/ad/eng/...".  Although, this is curious.  Some of
the directories show "d---------" when I do ls -al.  They were created
by root in the same environment (forced 700), but I can still read
their contents, and such.

Does open() strictly require the permissions you give it?  Like I
mentioned, the permissions are locked at 700.  Even if I try to chmod
777 the directory, I see no error, but the permissions remain
unchanged.  I'm thinking of doing a custom compile, removing those
places where specific permissions are needed.  My fear is that those
places are many...