On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Alex Franco < [email protected]> wrote:
> I gather the original reason (for the sanity test, as well as these > changes) is that it is better for everything under BUILDDIR - and certainly > TMPDIR to be owned by the user running bitbake and have standard > permissions, the sticky bit itself would prevent a user running bitbake, > even with +rwx permissions, from making changes to items it might need to > manipulate, if those are not owned by this user. Similarly setuid and > setgid might propagate user/group ownerships different from the user > bitbake is running as, into BUILDDIR and TMPDIR (and items therein). > > For more info take a look at: > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7669 > > Perhaps there are more pressing reasons, perhaps Christopher Larson can > comment a bit on this. > Indeed, the g+s can flow down into the files put into the packages, and then into the rootfs. I ran into a this problem quite a bit, since my project areas are in a g+s area to keep the files accessible to the group. -- Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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