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

[Pau Aliagas]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Jan Hudec wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 13:50:19 +0100, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > 
> > > > I'm not sure that tla preserves the setuid bits, in fact I think it 
> > > > does 
> > > > not. But anyway I'm talking about permissions that are commited to the 
> > > > archive and lost afterwards.
> > > 
> > > You have all directories in your working tree with setgid bits set???
> > 
> > Yes, I commit the changes with all the dirs g+s but they are not kept when 
> > adding revisions to the library. That is a problem when you want to share 
> > a directory to keep revision available for a devel group.
> 
> Now, that is a bug in arch. Arch should either:
> - Remember the suid & sgid bits and restore them apropriately.
> - Leave suid & sgid bits alone, leaving them in whatever state system
>   created them. Thus if parent dir is sgid, new directories should
>   remain sgid.

That's what I expected :) but neither happened. Only when adding the 
parent directories up to the patch-level the setuid bit was honoured, but 
when the revision was extracted and added to the library the setuid bits 
were lost.

> If it behaves neither way, it's a bug and should be fixed (it shouldn't
> be too hard).

I agree but I don't have the time to do it right now. I'm just posting  
the bugs I find to make arch better.

Pau