https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27284
Bug ID: 27284 Summary: ar: wrong permissions on output file Product: binutils Version: 2.36 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: binutils Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org Reporter: ats-sourceware at offog dot org Target Milestone: --- I've just run into an interesting problem when building plan9port with binutils 2.36: it uses "ar rcs" to build static libraries, but one of the libraries -- lib9.a, which has a very long list of objects -- ends up with permission 0600 rather than the intended 0644. Here's a script that reproduces the problem for me on amd64 GNU/Linux with GCC 10.2.0: ----- #!/bin/sh echo "int x;" >t.c gcc -c t.c for i in $(seq 100 299); do cp t.o $i.o done rm -f libt.a ar rcs libt.a 1*.o ls -l libt.a rm -f libt.a ar rcs libt.a [12]*.o ls -l libt.a ----- This produces the output: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101072 Jan 29 22:23 libt.a -rw------- 1 root root 202072 Jan 29 22:23 libt.a Tracing through the ar code, this seems to be fallout from this change: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2021-01/msg00089.html In write_archive, with the shorter argument list, iarch->iostream is non-NULL; with the longer list, iarch->iostream is NULL, and skip_stat is set to TRUE, so the permissions don't get set. It looks from the libbfd code like ->iostream can legitimately be NULL while the file is open, so I think the new test in write_archive is incorrect. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.