Re: [PATCH] tree-walk: disallow overflowing modes

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René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes:

> ...  It's basically harmless.  Perhaps
> we just need a comment stating that, to contain the urge to "fix" this.

Yeah, especially since fsck finds and warns about bad mode with
FSCK_MSG_BAD_FILEMODE and also FSCK_MSG_ZERO_PADDED_FILEMODE in a
separate codepath, adding another piece of code that checks a
slightly different condition does not sound like a good idea.

Thanks.



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