Bug 47484

Summary:	dos2unix and unix2dos change permissions
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tom Felker <tcfelker>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Daniel Black (RETIRED) <dragonheart>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tom Felker 2004-04-10 22:27:55 UTC

dos2unix and unix2dos always change the permissions of the files they act on to 0600 (rw-------).  Instead, they should leave them the same.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
$ touch test
$ ll test
-rw-r--r--    1 tom      users           0 Apr 11 00:19 test
$ unix2dos test
unix2dos: converting file test to DOS format ...
$ ll test
-rw-------    1 tom      users           0 Apr 11 00:19 test

Actual Results:  
The file has mode 0600

Expected Results:  
The file should have its original permissions, in this case 0644.  If
remembering the mode isn't possible, it should at least set the permissions to
0666 & ~umask.

Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-18 02:08:32 UTC

app-text/dos2unix or app-text/hd2u?

Comment 2 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-24 15:20:14 UTC

app-text/hd2u doesn't suffer this permission problem. However it only has dos2unix (and not unix2dos or mac stuff). Is this acceptable?

Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-04 18:19:50 UTC

app-text/dos2unix seems to have no maintainer upstream. While it is possible to write a bit of C code to fix the problem you have described the app-text/hd2u seems compatible to a large extent and does the same function.