Improve code to work in some cases when files are writeable but not readable.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ecb31b80b..16e2860e1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2004-08-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+	* src/shred.c (wipename): Work even if the directory is writeable
+	and not readable.  Prefer write access, since this should work
+	better with fdatasync.
+
 	* src/csplit.c (xalloc_die): New function.
 	(main): Remove now-obsolete initialization of xalloc_fail_func.
 
diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index c7a35cab6..a4cb4918d 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 2004-08-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
-	* xalloc-die.c: New files.
+	* chown.c (rpl_chown): Work even if the file is writeable but not
+	readable.  This could be improved further but it'd take some work.
+	* fts.c (diropen): New function.
+	(fts_open, fts_read, fts_children, fts_safe_changedir):
+	Use it, so that the code works even if the directory
+	is writeable but not readable.  We'd like it to work even if
+	the directory is merely executable, but I don't know how to do
+	that portably.
+
+	* xalloc-die.c: New file.
 	* xalloc.h (xalloc_fail_func, xalloc_msg_memory_exhausted): Remove.
 	All uses removed.
 	* xmalloc.c (xalloc_fail_func, xalloc_msg_memory_exhausted): Likewise.