John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if you create folders with it:
>
> I filter mail with procmail & pipe it into rcvstore.
>
> Here's strace output showing how it creates folders:
> procmail.trace:12385 mkdir("/u02/summer/.Mail/redhat/2000_03/piglet-list",
> 01274) = 0
>
>
> Here''s how 1.02 did it:
> procmail.trace2:12441 mkdir("/u02/summer/.Mail/redhat/2000_03/piglet-list",
> 0755) = 0
> procmail.trace2:12441 chmod("/u02/summer/.Mail/redhat/2000_03/piglet-list",
> 0700) = 0
>
> I like the old behaviour better; the new way creates a folder I cannot
> access.
"Sullivan N. Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is similar (probably related) to the thread "1.0.2 folder creation bug"
> that was on the mailing list a couple months ago. The problem still exists
> in 1.0.3 under Solaris.
>
> If .mh_profile contains the line
> Folder-protect: 700
> then you get the following:
> % folder +zzz
> Create folder "/cis/homes/sbeck/Mail/zzz"? y
> zzz+ is unreadable
> % ls -ld zzz
> d-w-rwxr-- 2 sbeck apps 512 Mar 15 16:07 zzz
> If you remove the Folder-protect line, the directory is created
> properly.
>
> I've seen this occur with perl too (on Solaris), and it's easily fixed
> by expressing the mode as 4 digits rather than 3. Sure enough, changing
> the line to:
> Folder-protect: 0700
> and it worked fine, but it might be nice to document this somewhere.
Thanks for the clarification of the problem John was seeing, Sullivan. That
was indeed it. When I fixed multiple bugs in makedir() in January, I was
unfortunately unaware of the "Folder-Protect:" .mh_profile entry. Thus I
only considered mode constants expressed as ASCII in the nmh source, which
all had leading zeroes. "Folder-Protect:", however, is documented as being
an octal-only constant, with no leading zero required.
I've changed my call to strtoul(..., 0) (which I did to be more flexible in
case anyone ever wanted to express a mode in another base besides octal) to
a call to atooi(). Now "Folder-Protect:" no longer needs a leading zero.
I've also removed all the misleading leading zeroes in ASCII constants to
reinforce that we're working in octal _only_ when it comes to modes.
John, please upgrade to the latest 1.0.3+dev CVS source, if possible. If
you don't have cvs and are unable to install it, let me know and I can make
a tar file available for you. BTW, is your Folder-Protect 700? If so, just
remove that line from your .mh_profile -- 700 is already nmh's default (I've
modified the mh-profile man page to make this more clear).
Sorry for introducing that bug when fixing the other one.
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