[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/3] Shared state for all !

[Joshua Lock]

On 09/05/12 17:50, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Joshua Lock<josh at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>> In Yocto #2041[2]  Mark reported an issue with reusing shared state as a
>> different user on the same machine.
>>
>> Since the whole purpose of shared state is that it be shared I decided to dig
>> into this issue. I wanted to at least be able to use the shared-state cache of
>> a different user without error, even if all of the objects aren't actually used
>> (i.e. native, at least on the Edison branch I did most of the testing with).
>>
>> This is an RFC mainly because it changes the permissions of created directories,
>> sstate files and siginfo files from what they have traditionally been.
>>
>> There is more of the rhyme an reason in the patch commit headers and comments
>> but tl;dr bb.mkdirhier directories will be 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) with this patch, as
>> will all of the contents of sstate-cache (siginfo and tgz) files.
>>
>> This is actually what one would expect from reading the Python API docs for
>> os.makedirs "The default mode is 0777 (octal)."[1] but not what actually happens
>> on most modern Linux systems thanks to umask.
>>
>> Please review the following changes for suitability for inclusion. If you have
>> any objections or suggestions for improvement, please respond to the patches. If
>> you agree with the changes, please provide your Acked-by.
>
> 777 seems questionable to me, personally. Generally collaboration
> happens amongst folks within a group, and chmod g+s makes that easier.
> I'd expect 775 to be a more sane value, myself.

Do you mean for bb.mkdirhier calls, the tgz files, the siginfo files or 
everything?

I went with 777 for mkdirhier as that's the default of os.makedirs 
before umask is involved. I would likely have picked rw-rw-r-- (664) if 
I weren't trying to request comments.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre