Re: [Gnu-arch-users] bad permissions when adding revisions to the library

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:33:56 +0100, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> 
> I want to share the revision library and to do so I've created a shared 
> dir, with g+s permisions. People belonging to the groups should be able to 
> store revisions there.
> 
> But when a library is needed and, consequently, added, I have permission 
> problems:
> -the dirs up to patch level preserve the group setuid bit
> -but the directories inside don't
> 
> Example:
> * /home/arch/{library} is created manually with g+s
>   I expect all the subdirs to keep the group setuid bit
> * /home/arch/{library}/address@hidden/web/web--prod/web--prod--1.0
>   This one and all the preceeding are created with g+s
> * /home/arch/{library}/address@hidden/web/web--prod/web--prod--1.0--patch-X
>   This one does not preserve the group setuid bit, so the dirs inside are 
>   created
> 
> * umask is always 0002
> 
> I would expect tla to always honour the group setuid bits.

Remember, that:
a) Permissions are under revision control in arch.
b) Revision library contains checked-out copies, where everything must
   be exactly same as for fresh working copy (preserving copy is
   done to get working copy from library).

Now, I guess it's clear why the setgid bits get reset within the library
revisions...

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