Re: [boost] bjam bug? Strange permission

Subject: Re: [boost] bjam bug? Strange permission
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-02 13:37:24

On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Marshall Clow wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> 
>>> AMDG
>>> 
>>> On 08/02/2012 07:47 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>>>> While tracking down strange directory permissions, I noticed this:
>>>> 
>>>> find . -name .hg -prune -o -type d  \( \! -perm 755 -and \! -perm 775 \) -ls
>>>> 17315044    4 drwxrw-r--   3 nbecker  nbecker      4096 Aug  2 08:41
>>>> ./bin.v2
>>>> 
>>>> I assume that dir was created by bjam during the test build, for some reason
>>>> with strange mode.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> The problem is
>>> mkdir(path, 0766);
>> 
>> But Neal's getting 0764 - strange.
>> 
>> Neal - what's your umask?
> 
> Common setting on Redhat-ish linux (in my case, fedora):

Ok - that explains what you're seeing; and Steven's fix will get you 775 on directories, which I think is fine.

-- Marshall

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