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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
Cc: Fairuzan Roslan <fairuzan.roslan@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, tboegi@web•de
Subject: Re: odb_mkstemp's 0444 permission broke write/delete access on AFP
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:31:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy4nv2kjk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4mqj3zyx.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:13:10 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
>>
>>> in compat/broken-unlink.c and something like this
>>>
>>> 	#ifdef BROKEN_UNLINK
>>> 	#define unlink(x) workaround_broken_unlink(x)
>>>         #endif
>>>
>>> in git-compat-util.h instead? 
>>
>> That means we have to know BROKEN_UNLINK at compile-time. I had never
>> heard about AFP before this thread, but they seem mountable on Linux and
>> Windows. I don't know whether these platforms will have the same issue,
>> but I suspect they will (if the server rejects the unlink).
>>
>> So, if my suspicion is right, we'd have to activate it on any platform
>> able to mount AFP, i.e. essentially everywhere.
>
> Sigh.

That is "Sigh.  It is unfortunate but you are correct.".

Perhaps we would need to do something ugly like this:

 * add "core.brokenUnlink" configuration (or whatever we end up
   calling this filesystem trait) and add "int broken_unlink" in
   environment.c (declare it in cache.h).

 * in init-db.c, autoprobe by doing something like this:

    create a test file with 0444 permission bits;
    if (unlink(that test file)) {
	chmod(that test file, 0644);
        if (!unlink(that test file)) {
		broken_unlink = 1;
		git_config_set("core.brokenunlink", broken_unlink);
	} else {
        	die("aaargh");
	}
    }

 * Do your unlink_or_chmod() thing in wrapper.c, but perhaps call it
   xunlink(), like this:

        int xunlink(...) {
		int ret = unlink(...);
		if (broken_unlink && ret) {
                        chmod(..., 0644);
                        ret = unlink(...);
                }
                return ret;
        }

We probably need something similar for xrename()?
	

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-18 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-16 17:54 odb_mkstemp's 0444 permission broke write/delete access on AFP Fairuzan Roslan
2015-02-16 18:23 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-16 18:41   ` Fairuzan Roslan
2015-02-16 19:08     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-17  3:22       ` Fairuzan Roslan
2015-02-17  5:34         ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-02-17  5:54           ` Fairuzan Roslan
2015-02-17  8:51         ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-17 16:58           ` Fairuzan Roslan
2015-02-17 17:54             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-02-18  8:15               ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-18 13:47                 ` Fairuzan Roslan
2015-02-18 14:05                   ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-18 14:23                     ` Fairuzan Roslan
2015-02-17 17:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-18 17:04             ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-18 17:13               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-18 17:31                 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-19 20:08           ` brian m. carlson
2015-02-20 10:40             ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-16 19:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-16 19:50     ` Torsten Bögershausen

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