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

[Joshua Lock]

On 10/05/12 04:22, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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 :/.

Sure, that'd work as well.

Though from the general feedback it feels like this series is moot and 
all that we really want is a sanity check.

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