[RFC] per-branch umask

[Jan Hudec]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:46:07 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
> > Jan Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>Ok or not, sftp does not support setting umask, so it's the only way
> >>(short of requiring users to create wrapers for the sftp server).
> > 
> > 
> > If the performance loss is visible, then there should be a way to
> > disable the chmod.
> > 
> 
> Actually, I found a better way. The CMD_OPEN call for sftp lets you
> specify a file mode at creation time.
> Since sftp.put() always uses _sftp_open_exclusive() and puts the file
> into a temporary file, we probably don't have to chmod the file again.

So does open -- but masks it with umask. Isn't sftp the same case?

> Which means that the only real overhead is an extra stat() call when you
> open the branch, to determine the permissions of the branch. And a
> couple extra bytes which pass the mode bits.
> 
> John
> =:->
> 


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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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