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Re: Today's 'master' leaves .idx/.pack in 0400

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Apr 22, 2007, 19:29 UTC
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> How about this as a replacement (hot off the press -- still
> running the tests).
Looks good, but..
> +		mode_t mode = umask(0);
> +
> +		umask(mode);
> +		mode = 0666 & ~mode;
I would really suggest just defaulting to
	mode = 0444 & ~mode;
since there simply is never any reason to allow a writable pack-file.

The fact that we have some tests that try to corrupt a pack-file is not really a reason. Just make them do "chmod +w" before corrupting it.

But your patch is an obvious improvement regardless, so I certainly don't think this is a *big* issue.

		Linus
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