Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> writes:
> On 2014-07-10 21.49, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> []
>> If we limit the case to "Inherit permissions from the file we are
>> replacing by taking a lock on it", which is the topic of discussion
>> in this thread, we do not have to worry about how to configure the
>> value (we do not have to) and adding a new parameter to tell the
>> mode to hold-lock-file-for-update is unneeded (the function will
>> have a pathname of the original and can learn the current permission
>> bits itself).
> So something like this:
Yeah, I think something along those lines may be sufficient and we
do not have to do anything when closing/committing, at least POSIX
systems. I do not know if other filesystems we may care about let
you open with 0400 and still write into it, though.
> (I will probably not have the time to make a proper patch :-(
That's OK. I see many names on Cc: who are all capable of helping
us ;-)
>
> diff --git a/lockfile.c b/lockfile.c
> index 4899270..134d5c8 100644
> --- a/lockfile.c
> +++ b/lockfile.c
> @@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ static void resolve_symlink(struct strbuf *path)
> /* Make sure errno contains a meaningful value on error */
> static int lock_file(struct lock_file *lk, const char *path, int flags)
> {
> + int perms = 0666;
> + struct stat st;
> + if (!lstat(path, &st))
> + perms = st.st_mode & 0777;
> +
> if (!lock_file_list) {
> /* One-time initialization */
> sigchain_push_common(remove_lock_file_on_signal);
> @@ -179,7 +184,7 @@ static int lock_file(struct lock_file *lk, const char
> *path, int flags)
> if (!(flags & LOCK_NODEREF))
> resolve_symlink(&lk->filename);
> strbuf_addstr(&lk->filename, LOCK_SUFFIX);
> - lk->fd = open(lk->filename.buf, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0666);
> + lk->fd = open(lk->filename.buf, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, perms);
> if (lk->fd < 0) {
> strbuf_reset(&lk->filename);
> return -1;
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