The core problem is that there is no 100% pure Java way to get or set file permissions. See JSR 203 (http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=203)
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| Jeffrey E. (Jeff) Care | |
| IBM WebSphere Application Server Development |
WAS Pyxis Lead
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"Brown, Carlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/07/2006 01:37:47 PM:
> All:
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> I have found a dilemma on what ought to be a simple task. I need to
> copy some files from one location to another and run them through a
> filter.
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> OK, great. Ant has filters I can use.
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> Wait... these are scripts. They need to be executable.
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> Ant's copy task doesn't preserve file permissions.
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> According to the manual, if you want file permissions preserved, either
> you set your default umask or exec out to a "cp" command.
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> But apparently umask isn't really a simple mathematical permissions
> mask. Setting a umask of 000 won't give you rwx permissions, for
> example.
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> And if I resort to exec'ing the cp command, then I can't use the filters
> I wanted to use.
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> The only thing remaining is a kludge that captures the states of the
> files before copy and then uses chmod to restore them after the copy.
> That's cheesy and I don't want to do it.
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> Anybody run into this before?
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