#43 File list should include information about group-only directories
Closed: Fixed 6 years ago Opened 7 years ago by tibbs.

Pre-bitflip content is hidden behind a directory that's mode 750. The files below have regular permissions.

For things (files or directories) which have group but not world read permissions, we should make some kind of note in the file list. Easiest is to just use a different type for the second column of the file list. Append an 'r', '-' or '0' to indicate that the thing is restricted. We shouldn't have to worry about things that don't even have group read permissions, because the file list generator should be skipping those.

Any change to the second column of the file list is technically a breaking change, since it will cause the client to ignore those lines. I don't think it's worth fully breaking the client for this, though. Will need to think about it a bit more.


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7 years ago

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7 years ago

Done as of d3861d0.

I ended up leaving the file list version unchanged in the generator so as to not immediately break every existing client; they will simply not see any protected content. But the current code is set up to handle a bump in the file list version, so we can just wait until a bit after a real release is made and then update the generator.

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- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

6 years ago

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