[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 2/3] lib/bb/siggen.py: create permissive files and directories

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 17:22 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Create signature files, and the directories which contain them, with
> rwx for everyone so that they are easily shared with different users
> of the same machine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  bitbake/lib/bb/siggen.py |    7 ++++++-
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/siggen.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/siggen.py
> index 8c79b17..bd6d59b 100644
> --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/siggen.py
> +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/siggen.py
> @@ -201,7 +201,12 @@ class SignatureGeneratorBasic(SignatureGenerator):
>              for dep in data['runtaskdeps']:
>                  data['runtaskhashes'][dep] = self.taskhash[dep]
>  
> -        p = pickle.Pickler(file(sigfile, "wb"), -1)
> +        # Create file with permissive (0777) read/write for easier sharing
> +        f = os.fdopen(os.open(sigfile, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT), "wb")
> +        # os.open() and os.fdopen() are affected by the users umask so brute force
> +        # the permissions with a call to chmod
> +        os.chmod(sigfile, 0777)
> +        p = pickle.Pickler(f, -1)
>          p.dump(data)

Why not just run the chmod after the original pickle code? Its not as if
you avoid a race this way :/.

Cheers,

Richard