From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: luciano.rocha@booking.com, git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] freshen_file(): use NULL `times' for implicit current-time
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:02:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa73c4510.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200415234847.GI2751707@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:48:47 +0000")
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> So the answer is the user needs to have write access with utime(fn,
> NULL), but the same EUID (or root) with a specific time.
OK, with a specific time, write access is not sufficient, and that
is why this patch helps.
Makes perfect sense. Thanks for a dose of sanity ;-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-14 14:27 [PATCH 1/1] freshen_file(): use NULL `times' for implicit current-time luciano.rocha
2020-04-14 19:55 ` Jeff King
2020-04-15 9:09 ` [External] " luciano.rocha
2020-04-15 16:05 ` Jeff King
2020-04-15 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-15 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-15 23:48 ` brian m. carlson
2020-04-16 1:02 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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