From: Martin Waitz Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:17:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-init: don't base core.filemode on the ability to chmod. Message-ID: <20071004071751.GD20800@admingilde.org> In-Reply-To: <7vr6kbbdph.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> hoi :) On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:23:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > filemode = !( (st1.st_mode & S_IXUSR) > /* we did not ask for x-bit -- bogus FS */ > || chmod(path, st1.st_mode & S_IXUSR) > /* it does not let us flip x-bit -- bogus FS */ > || lstat(path, &st2) > /* it does not let us read back -- bogus FS */ > || (st1.st_mode == st2.st_mode) > /* it forgets we flipped -- bogus FS */ > ); that looks good. -- Martin Waitz