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List:       coreutils-bug
Subject:    Re: new snapshot
From:       Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2007-10-29 6:19:16
Message-ID: 200710290219.16799.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Sunday 28 October 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
> > >./../../../coreutils-6.9-354-68c33a/tests/rm/fail-eperm: skipping this
> > > test
> > >
> > >grep nobody /etc/passwd:
> > >nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/:/bin/false
> > >
> > >Whereas it just succeeded when building from $(srcdir).
> > >(And I do have /tmp, with mode 1777...).
> >
> > Ah, I see, the untarred sources' directories all have 777,
> > whereas the build directory has 755 throughout.  That explains.
> > Sorry for that noise.
>
> What umask are you using when unpacking, building, and testing?  In
> order to get directory modes 777 I would expect that you have a zero
> umask set.
>
> If you unpack, build and test using 'umask 02' or 'umask 022' does
> that work better?

when you unpack using `tar xf coreutils-...tar.gz` as root, the directories 
get 0777 even with umask 0022.  unpacking as non-root gives correct behavior 
of 0755.
-mike

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