linux-kernel - Re: Today's 'master' leaves .idx/.pack in 0400

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Date:	Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:29:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Junio C Hamano <junkio@....net>
cc:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Today's 'master' leaves .idx/.pack in 0400



On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> How about this as a replacement (hot off the press -- still
> running the tests).

Looks good, but..

> +		mode_t mode = umask(0);
> +
> +		umask(mode);
> +		mode = 0666 & ~mode;

I would really suggest just defaulting to

	mode = 0444 & ~mode;

since there simply is never any reason to allow a writable pack-file.

The fact that we have some tests that try to corrupt a pack-file is not 
really a reason. Just make them do "chmod +w" before corrupting it.

But your patch is an obvious improvement regardless, so I certainly don't 
think this is a *big* issue.

		Linus
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