Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: ref_make_macros: make clear that permission should be four digits

[Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>]

Hello Michael,

Am Freitag, 21. August 2020, 09:52:29 CEST schrieb Michael Olbrich:
> Hello Roland hand Alexander,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:04:31PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 19. August 2020, 12:59:08 CEST schrieb Roland Hieber:
> > > Three octal digits are not enough, we must also respect the
> > > sticky/setuid/setgid bits. Even if these are mostly implied to be 0, we
> > > should be explicit here. This should also help to prevent permission
> > > clashes when more than one packages install the same directory.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
> 
> Thanks for sorting this out. I'll apply the patches because I think this is
> better for consistency. But we should probably accept the versions without
> leading zeros as well. The final result is the same after all.

No objection on the concept. If 3 digits is accepted in general and e.g. 755 
always means 0755, that additional script magic would mean less friction on 
user side, which is a good thing.

> Probably something like this:
> 
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/lib/ptxd_lib_check_dir_permissions.awk
> b/scripts/lib/ptxd_lib_check_dir_permissions.awk index
> faa0c64373f0..e6eb99f1937e 100644
> --- a/scripts/lib/ptxd_lib_check_dir_permissions.awk
> +++ b/scripts/lib/ptxd_lib_check_dir_permissions.awk
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ function check_parents(base) {
> 
>  $1 ~ "d" {
>  	path = gensub(/\/$/,"",1,$2)
> -	perm = $3 "." $4 " " $5
> +	perm = $3 "." $4 " 0" sprintf("%o", strtonum("0" $5))
>  	check(path, perm, "")
>  	check_parents(path)
>  }
> 
> What do you think?

I can't review awk. Sorry.

Have a nice weekend everyone
Alex

> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  * v2: unchanged
> > >  
> > >  doc/ref_make_macros.rst | 6 +++---
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/doc/ref_make_macros.rst b/doc/ref_make_macros.rst
> > > index 6f056adf3e7d..ae65cb9408cf 100644
> > > --- a/doc/ref_make_macros.rst
> > > +++ b/doc/ref_make_macros.rst
> > > 
> > > @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Some of the parameters have fixed meanings:
> > >  **<GID>**
> > >  
> > >    Group ID the file should use in the target's root filesystem
> > >  
> > >  **<permission>**
> > > 
> > > -  Permission (in an octal value) the file should use in the target's
> > > root
> > > filesystem +  Permission (as a four-digit octal value) the file should
> > > use
> > > in the target's root filesystem
> > > 
> > >  The remaining parameters vary with the use case:
> > > @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ The base parameters and their meanings:
> > >  **<GID>**
> > >  
> > >    Group ID the file should use in the target's root filesystem
> > >  
> > >  **<permission>**
> > > 
> > > -  Permission (in an octal value) the file should use in the target's
> > > root
> > > filesystem +  Permission (as a four-digit octal value) the file should
> > > use
> > > in the target's root filesystem
> > > 
> > >  The parameter <destination> is meant as an absolute path
> > >  and filename in target's root filesystem. PTXdist searches for the
> > >  source
> > > 
> > > @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ The parameters and their meanings:
> > >  **<GID>**
> > >  
> > >    Group ID the directories and files should use in the target's root
> > > 
> > > filesystem **<permission>**
> > > -  Permission (as an octal value) the library should use in the target's
> > > root +  Permission (as a four-digit octal value) the library should use
> > > in
> > > the target's root filesystem (mostly 0644)
> > > 
> > >  **<libname>**
> > >  
> > >    Basename of the library without any extension and path
> > 
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