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From: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave•org>
To: goredo-devel@lists.cypherpunks.ru
Subject: Re: File mode changes not properly updated for existing targets
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 17:29:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZSFrSSp_LNBd1x5R@stargrave.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4d15ee0b1d395a8cb9bdbeabe6a7eb@spacefrogg.net>
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Greetings!
*** spacefrogg [2023-10-05 14:21]:
>Could it be, that you are doing "cat" instead of "mv" on an existing target
>to avoid changing the inode?
Definitely not, because, as you correctly noted, that would be
non-atomic operation.
>Okay, further testing showed that file modes are not updated exactly when
>the content of the target did not change. So, after checking the content of
>$3 and the old target, goredo should still update the mode bits. :)
Agreed, forget to take it into account! Will copy the mode of the file
to the target even if it is not renamed because of identical contents.
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Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-05 14:21 File mode changes not properly updated for existing targets spacefrogg
2023-10-05 14:23 ` spacefrogg
2023-10-05 14:28 ` Jan Niklas Böhm
2023-10-07 14:26 ` Sergey Matveev
2023-10-07 14:29 ` Sergey Matveev [this message]