On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi kusma,
>
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>> >
>> >> b) add "+++" at the places where you added the stat() and chmod(),
>> >> c) and to send the question "is this a good implementation ?" to upstream
>> >> git.
>> >>
>> >> I think your implementation makes sense.
>> >
>> > As I said in my other reply, I think that the problem would be
>> > addressed more generally in compat/mingw.c. It is to be doubted highly
>> > that upstream wants to handle cases such as "rename() cannot overwrite
>> > read-only files on Windows" everywhere they call rename() because the
>> > platforms upstream cares about do not have that problem.
>>
>> I'm not so sure. A quick test shows me that this is not the case for
>> NTFS. Since this is over a network-share, the problem is probably
>> server-side, and can affect other systems as well.
>>
>> So a work-around might be appropriate for all systems, no?
>
> I do not think that the problem occurs if you run the same commands on
> Linux, on a mounted Samba share. So I guess that upstream Git can enjoy
> their luxury of not having to care.
>
> In any case, if we would need this also for Linux, doing it for only one
> user of rename() would probably not be good enough, either... so something
> similar to mingw_rename() would be needed (interfering with mingw_rename
> itself, of course).
>
Indeed. I was thinking of something along the lines of adding a
xrename in wrapper.c.
But you're probably right that this doesn't happen under Samba; surely
Samba would have added a work-around for such a filesystem by now. So
yeah, you've convinced me. mingw_rename is probably the place to do
that.
The work-around would probably look something like this:
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index a37bbf3..580b820 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1697,6 +1697,14 @@ int mingw_rename(const char *pold, const char *pnew)
*/
if (!_wrename(wpold, wpnew))
return 0;
+
+ if (errno == EPERM) {
+ /* read-only files cannot be moved over on network shares */
+ _wchmod(wpnew, 0666);
+ if (!_wrename(wpold, wpnew))
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (errno != EEXIST)
return -1;
repeat:
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