Re: problem with file mode

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jun 8, 2009, 14:50 UTC
Message-ID: <4A2D251E.9030305@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090608135709.GC28101@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King schrieb:

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> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:49:44PM +0300, Andrew Romanenco wrote:
>> true - B is Fat
> 
> Then you probably want to:
> 
>   git config core.filemode false
> 
> on B. Though I thought we automagically tested whether the filesystem
> supported executable bits when creating the repository.

We do. Our test basically:

   lstat()
   chmod(st_mode ^ S_IXUSR)
   lstat()

but Linux (Andrew said he's on Ubuntu) keeps the mode bits that user-space requested with chmod() in the cache long enough that the subsequent lstat() call sees what it just requested. So, our test doesn't notice that the x-bit is not written to the filesystem.

:-(

-- Hannes