The test would fail if the umask on UNIX is greater than 0022, because
the OS transparently subtracts it from the mode passed to Mkdir(), as
the Go documentation confirms.
Our goal here is not to test os.Mkdir(), so just make sure the desired
mode is actually set by forcing it afterwards.
This adds a folder option "CopyOwnershipFromParent" which, when set,
makes Syncthing attempt to retain the owner/group information when
syncing files. Specifically, at the finisher stage we look at the parent
dir to get owner/group and then attempt a Lchown call on the temp file.
For this to succeed Syncthing must be running with the appropriate
permissions. On Linux this is CAP_FOWNER, which can be granted by the
service manager on startup or set on the binary in the filesystem. Other
operating systems do other things, but often it's not required to run as
full "root". On Windows this patch does nothing - ownership works
differently there and is generally less of a deal, as permissions are
inherited as ACLs anyway.
There are unit tests on the Lchown functionality, which requires the
above permissions to run. There is also a unit test on the folder which
uses the fake filesystem and hence does not need special permissions.
Jakob Borg
André Colomb
xarx00
Simon Frei
Michael Ploujnikov
Audrius Butkevicius