From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 44560 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2017 21:02:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 44548 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2017 21:02:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=piped, Eliot, H*Ad:D*cs.umass.edu, H*Ad:D*umass.edu X-HELO: mailsrv.cs.umass.edu Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (HELO mailsrv.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:02:56 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.4] (c-24-62-203-86.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.203.86]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3F7A640421B7; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:02:55 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: Request to the git maintainer References: <87a84cxcos.fsf@Rainer.invalid> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <64cc57cf-09c7-6225-963f-9adacb7d03af@cs.umass.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:02:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87a84cxcos.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 On 7/10/2017 4:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Eliot Moss writes: >> Dear maintainer of git .... >> >> I use CrashPlan as my backup engine. It has difficulty backing up >> files with no "other" access. Many git locale (.mo) and doc-related >> files have permissions 600 (directories 700). Is there a good reason >> for this? I would think that 644 and 755 access would be fine for >> these files, and it would prevent the problems I see with CrashPlan. > > That's an upstream build system bug. Some of the installation scripts > use cp instead of install and that in turn makes them dependent on umask > (which doesn't get set aywhere I can easily find). I guess Adam could > work around that by setting 'umask 022' in the cygport file, but it > really should be fixed in git.git. I looked upstream, and at least some of the files I am concerned about are installed using "tar" piped to another "tar", with umask 022 set explicitly. I think the problem is that the source of this copying has 600 or 700 permissions. Not sure if *that* is an upstream problem or not ... Regards - Eliot -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple