From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:01:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Storing permissions
Message-ID: <118833cc05041618017fb32a2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050416230058.GA10983@ucw.cz>

> Does it really make sense to store full permissions in the trees? I think
> that remembering the x-bit should be good enough for almost all purposes
> and the other permissions should be left to the local environment.

It makes some sense in principle, but without storing what they mean
(i.e., group==?) it certainly makes no sense.  It's a bit like unpacking a
tar file.

I suspect a non-readable file would cause a bit of a problem in the low-level
commands.

Morten