Re: Today's 'master' leaves .idx/.pack in 0400

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >
> > >> With recent glibc, mkstemp() creates 0400 file.  Updated
> > >> pack-objects uses it in pack/idx writing without fixing this,
> > >> hence this problem.
> > >
> > > Oops.  I guess I'm guilty for this.  I didn't bother looking at the 
> > > permission on the pack for git-pack-objects since git-repack seemed to 
> > > take care of that.  But it only _remove_ write permissions.
> > 
> > Ok, then probably we can change the 0444 in my "quickfix" patch
> > to 0644.  That should also let the 5300 test pass.
> 
> Well, actually there is no point making pack files writable.  If they're 
> modified, they get corrupted.

OK there are those test cases.

Well...  Either we chmod to 0644, or we fix the tests to 'chmod +w' like 
it is already done in t5302.

In any case I wouldn't die() but only error() on a failure to chmod().  
It is sure inconvenient if the pack isn't world readable, but it is not 
a "fatal" problem for the repack.


Nicolas