On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:46:00PM +0200, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > Hello, > > I manage my music collection with rhythmbox and share it via samba. > However, rhythmbox sets the file permissions to 0600 when tagging a > file, regardless what they have been before. This causes problems since > the "guest"-account of samba is "nobody" (UID 65534), so these files can > not be accessed via samba any longer once they have been edited and I > have to manually chmod 644 them.
Tag editing in rhythmbox works by completely rewriting the file, and currently no effort is made to preserve the original permissions. This would be a relatively simple thing for someone so inclined to fix. gio provides a function for this very purpose, g_file_copy_attributes. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
