[Gnu-arch-users] Re: PFS access to revision library? (Was: Re: bad permissions when adding revisions to the library)

[Pau Aliagas]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Tom Lord wrote:

> 
>     > From: Jan Hudec <address@hidden>
> 
>     > 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.
> 
>     > It makes me think of the following: Is it possible (or how hard
>     > it would be to make it possible) to access revision libraries
>     > using the "pseudo filesystem" layer -- ie. accessing revision
>     > libraries with eg. sftp?  That would allow developers working on
>     > a same server/in same computer lab to share a revision library
>     > for their project.
> 
> The PFS layer doesn't have a rich enough interface for even read-only
> access to a revision library.   It can't, for example, `stat' a file.
> 
> Write access is even harder.  For exaple, `patch(1)' writes some of
> the files that wind up in a revision library but patch expects a
> normal filesystem.
> 
> When you say "same computer lab" -- why not use NFS?

Setuid bits should be preserved and they are not a I explained in the 
previous thread. The ,,new-revisoio* dir is create without honouring the 
setuid bits and the {arch} dir inside is created 755. umask is always 
0002.

Pau