data/versioncache and Scmbug

[Kristis Makris]

Well, there's a perfectly logical explanation for everything.

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:24, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> I'm finding it hard to understand why your versioncache would not be
> generated upon running a CGI, but you might be able to identify this
> quicker than me given it's actually missing from your disk <wink>.

It turns out that if one calls GenerateVersionTable() as the root user
(e.g. when running the Scmbug daemon), the permissions on
data/versioncache are:


# ls -lrtah data/versioncache 
-rw-rw----    1 apache   apache        16K Aug 10 01:05
data/versioncache

Which forbid the root user to delete the versioncache file.

suddenly unlink("data/versioncache") sounds a lot more attractive than
calling GenerateVersionTable(). Hmm...