Re: [vile] Tags not working, how to diagnose?

[Chris G]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:38:31PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>         if (ffaccess(fname, mode)) {
> #if SYS_UNIX
>             int success = FALSE;
>
>             if (mode & FL_EXECABLE) {
>                 char *dname = malloc(NFILEN + strlen(fname) + 10);
>                 if (dname != 0) {
>                     sprintf(dname, "%s%c..", fname, vl_pathsep);
>                     lengthen_path(dname);
>                     if (is_our_file(dname) && is_our_file(fname)) {
>                         success = TRUE;
>                     }
>                     free(dname);
>                 }
>             } else {
>                 success = TRUE;
>             }
>             if (success)
> #endif
>
> The is_our_file() call is seeing that your directory is group-writable.
> I added a check last year:
>
>  20061212 (m)
>         + disallow source'ing from the current directory if the source'd 
> file
>           might be writable by other users.
>
> The check is really aimed at sourcing things like .vilerc, but tags
> happens to be using the same function.  So vile ignores that file,
> continues looking for something better.
>
> It "should" work if you chmod the directory to 755.
>
That's it, thanks.

I don't quite know why all my directories are 775 at the moment, no
good reason I suspect.  Aha, umask is set to 0002.

-- 
Chris Green