Re: Git changes permissions on directories when deleting files.

> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:57:19PM -0500, Chad Joan wrote:
>
>> > Exactly. Rather than spend time figuring out if the directory is
>> > removable (which would not be atomic, anyway), we just rmdir and ignore
>> > the error condition.
>> >
>> > I would argue that your filesystem is broken. Even if we implemented a
>> > workaround to opendir() and check for files, it would still have a race
>> > condition that could cause this situation to occur.
>>
>> Ouch.
>>
>> Would it work to do something like alias rmdir to a script or program
>> that would call /bin/rmdir and then fix up the permissions?
>
> Well, we're using the rmdir system call, so you would need a patch to
> git either way. If that was something we wanted to support (with a
> config option, of course), we could do the permissions check-and-restore
> ourselves.
>
> But it just seems horribly broken to me. This is CIFS to an OpenVMS
> machine you said? Do the broken permissions appear to other clients or
> across a remount (i.e., is it broken state in your CIFS client, or has
> the server actually munged permissions)? If so, have you tried reporting
> the issue to whoever writes CIFS server on OpenVMS (is it just samba)?
>
> -Peff
>