Permissions of the top-level destination directory without --perms

[Paul Slootman]

On Fri 16 Feb 2007, Matt McCutchen wrote:

> I noticed that rsync sometimes miscalculates the permissions of the
> top-level destination directory when --perms is off.  For example, run
> these commands in an area free of default ACLs:
> 
> umask 0000
> mkdir -p src/foo
> chmod 700 src src/foo
> rsync -r src/ dest/
> find . -ls
> 
> 763054    0 drwx------   4 matt     matt           96 Feb 16 17:57 .
> 763158    0 drwx------   3 matt     matt           72 Feb 16 17:57 ./src
> 1424849    0 drwx------   2 matt     matt           48 Feb 16 17:57 
> ./src/foo
> 1075094    0 drwxrwxrwx   3 matt     matt           72 Feb 16 17:57 ./dest
> 1511362    0 drwx------   2 matt     matt           48 Feb 16 17:57 
> ./dest/foo
> 
> Notice that the permissions of dest/foo were correctly restricted by
> the 700 permissions of src/foo, but the permissions of dest were not
> restricted by the permissions of src.

Actually, I find the above behaviour to be what I'd expect;
after all, you're telling it to transfer the contents of src, not src
itself; and dest is an implied directory, and created with default
permissions.


Paul Slootman