Re: RFC: [PATCH] trans/fakeroot.c

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 10:55 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 10:43 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Tue 09 Jun 2015 10:13:46 +0200, a écrit :
> > > Done so now. Attached are two versions of a patch to fakeroot.c. In
> > > netfs_get_dirents(): call netfs_attempt_chmod() before dir_readdir() to
> > > make sure that directories are accessible (executable) before changing
> > > the underlying files.
> > 
> > Why are they not accessible?
> > 
> > We don't want to browntape-fix the issue, but really understand what is
> > happening.
> 
> chmod -R 644 <directory> makes all directories drwr--r-- i.e. not
> accessible, as I wrote. Is that a brown-tape fix?
> 
> 
mkdir test
touch test/a

chmod -R test
chmod: cannot access ‘test/a’: Permission denied

ls -ld test
drw-r--r-- 2 srs srs 4096 Jun  9 11:00 test

ls -l test
ls: cannot access test/a: Permission denied
total 0
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