#12334: MediaConvert does not check for read only target directory (easy)
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Reporter: pulkomandy | Owner: Barrett
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/MediaConverter | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All
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Comment (by axeld):
`access()` is not enough for this check! If you mount a writable file
system read-only, it will still report the actual file permissions, not
the effective ones. If you really want to know whether or not you can
write in a certain position, you need to check if it's a read-only volume,
first. It's the same on Linux, BTW.
In this particular case, IIRC the permissions in the packagefs are set in
the package themselves; I think we have an open bug report that those are
messed up when you build Haiku with a weird umask. Not sure if that only
affects files, or directories as well, but I assume the latter.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12334#comment:13>
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