[Python-Dev] Strange umask(?)/st_mode issue (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Mon Apr 1 19:59:43 EDT 2019

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 4:49 PM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:

On 01Apr2019 15:44, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote: >On 01Apr2019 1535, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>On 01Apr2019 09:12, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote: >>>On 30Mar2019 1130, Gregory P. Smith wrote: >>>>I wouldn't expect it to be the case in a CI environment but I >>>>believe a umask can be overridden if the filesystem is mounted >>>>and configured with acls set? (oh, hah, Ivan just said the same >>>>thing) >>> >>>Yep, it appears this is the case. The Pipelines team got back to >>>me and it seems to be a known issue - the workaround they gave me >>>was to run "sudo setfacl -Rb /home/vsts" at the start, so I've >>>merged that in for now (to master and 3.7). >> >>Could that be done without sudo to just the local directory >>containing the test tar file? If that works then you don't need any >>nasty privileged sudo use (which will just break on platforms >>without sudo anyway). > >I tried something similar to that and it didn't work. My guess is it's >to do with the actual mount point? (I also tried without sudo at >first, and when I didn't work, I tried it with sudo. I hear that's how >to decide whether you need it or not ;) ) > >In any case, it only applies to the Azure Pipelines build definition, >so there aren't any other platforms where it'll be used.

Ok then. Curious: is the sudo now in the build setup? I'm just thinking that this isn't a tarfile specific fix but a "get correct POSIX umask semantics" fix, so it should apply to the entire environment. Or am I naive?

I'm reading between the lines and assuming we're not the only user of their CI complaining about this environment change. ;) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20190401/ebd27f4d/attachment.html>

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