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Re: Respecting inherited Windows file permissions on file create

From: Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:33:19 +0400

On 30 September 2013 12:12, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
> Given the ‘create/close/move/open/write/close/move’ the average Windows
> installation would introduce a few more steps on both open and close for
> virusscanner intervention.
>
> There are thousands of regressions since moving to a central working copy
> database, but most of them weren’t designed as features in the first place.
> Som users just mounted parts of the working copy and used that as a working
> copy root…
>
> ‘Fixing this’ without a proper design by locking a file 3 or 4 times more
> might just make the average checkout or update 2 or 3 times slower… I would
> call that a far more serious regression than the ACL management one that we
> never promised to work in any particular way.
>
>
Theoretically we can fix it atomic, without locking and creating file
in target directory. Using some security descriptor magic:
1. Create temporary file .svn/tmp
2. Obtatain SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR of target directory
3. Convert all non-inherited permissions to inherited
4. Set this SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR for temporary file.

Optionally we can specify SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR when file is being
created, but we need direct CreateFile() for this instead of APR.

-- 
Ivan Zhakov
CTO | VisualSVN | http://www.visualsvn.com
Received on 2013-09-30 11:34:14 CEST

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