Re: [PATCH v3 00/26] inotify support

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2014-02-08 09.53, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>>>> file-watcher.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> I feel a little bit unsure about the 700.
>>> Most often Git does not care about permissions,
>>> and relies on umask being set appropriatly.
>>> (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
>>
>>Git does care. See credential-cache--daemon.c. In fact this function
>>is a copy of check_socket_directory() from that file.
>>
> I was probably a little bit unclear.
> Of course credentials should be protected well and stored with 700.
> The rest of the repo could be more loose by using adjust_shared_perm().
> Because the whole repo can be shared (or not) and data is visible
> to the group or everyone.
> (this is a minor issue)

So how about a check whenever a worktree is connected to the daemon,
if that worktree has stricter permission, e.g. 0700 vs 0770 of the
daemon socket directory, then the daemon refuses the worktree (maybe
with a warning)?
-- 
Duy
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