Re: Creating dir and fixing permissions on existing dirs

[Mark . Burgess]

On 10 May, Adrian Phillips wrote:
> 
> Am I being dense here - I want to have a directories, or files for
> that matter, that creates a directory and fixes its permissions. Now
> the options today seem to be :-
> 
> - directories : creates but doesn't handle permissions

(yes it does?)

> - files, action fixdirs : fixes perms but doesn't create
> - files, action touch : creates but doesn't fix perms (I posted patch
>   to fix this)
> - files, action create : creates but doesn't fix perms
> 

Why can't you just have two rules? There's no reason to do everything
in one rule -- it doesn't cost any more or less?


> Now touch, with my patch, does fix the perms but updates the mtime
> which I don't want.
> 
> Now, if there is currently no way to do this then I propose a new
> action, <something>, that creates and fixes perms for a
> directory. What <something> would be I've been struggling with, but
> createfixdirs is about the only thing I can think of. Oh, I'd create a
> patch for this as well so I'm not looking for somebody to do the work
> for me just suggestions for the best solution :-)
> 
> Has anyone else suggestions ?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian Phillips
> 

I need to look at this more closely. I haven't had time to look at the mail
recently.

M

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