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Re: get git not to care about permissions

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MSMatt Schoen <mtschoen@gmail.com>
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Nov 12, 2009, 21:44 UTC
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> It prints an absolute path, so the open() also accesses an absolute
> path (though I don't know why it insists on that).
>
> But the above directory listing would indicate that you do not even
> have permission to look inside your $(pwd) by absolute path...

I'm pretty sure I can. How can I test this? I can ls all subdirectories within the path, and when I navigate to the path, I usually do it absolutely. After all, this is a network share, so I have to start with "/ad/eng/...". Although, this is curious. Some of the directories show "d---------" when I do ls -al. They were created by root in the same environment (forced 700), but I can still read their contents, and such.

Does open() strictly require the permissions you give it? Like I mentioned, the permissions are locked at 700. Even if I try to chmod 777 the directory, I see no error, but the permissions remain unchanged. I'm thinking of doing a custom compile, removing those places where specific permissions are needed. My fear is that those places are many...

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  1. sconemanNov 9, 2009
  2. Jay SoffianNov 12, 2009
  3. Matt SchoenNov 12, 2009
  4. Thomas RastNov 12, 2009
  5. Matt SchoenNov 12, 2009
  6. Thomas RastNov 15, 2009
  7. Eugene SajineNov 12, 2009
  8. Matt SchoenNov 12, 2009

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