[darcs-users] --set-scripts-executable ignore world flag ?

[Karel Gardas]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, gary ng wrote:

> umask 0022, so every file I create is by default
> 0744(just touch a). I changed it to 0755.
>
> Just found another thing, darcs don't consider changes
> to file attributes as change. I need to change the
> attribute, then change the content of the file and
> follows by a darcs record to record the changes.

Yes, that's because of darcs does not track file "metadata" changes at 
all. --set-scripts-executable just makes darcs scanning for `#!' at the 
beginning of file and if it is found, then makes this file executable.

> But the darcs get still gives me 0754, instead of 0755
> which is what I expect.

that's strange, since what darcs should do is just `chmod +x' equivalent. 
The code is:

make_executable fp = do
                      stat <- getFileStatus fp
                      setFileMode fp (unionFileModes (unionFileModes (fileMode stat) ownerExecuteMode) groupExecuteMode)

see FileSystem.hs

> Oh, it is linux 2.4.31 on ext3(with user attribute
> patches), if that makes a difference.

I don't know if this might make difference, but is it also possible to 
test this on plain ext3?

Thanks,
Karel
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