Bug #12456
closedtmpdir.rb raises Errors in Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux
Description
Hello,
under the new Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux, tmpdir.rb throws Errors, because of the "if stat.world_writable? and !stat.sticky?" check. Under Windows 10, all directories are mode 777 by default. However, directory permissions are still enforced by other parts of the OS, unseen by the Linux subsystem. That means there is little sense in checking for the sticky bit in the new Windows subsystem.
This causes problems in Bundler, for example. See here:
https://github.com/bundler/bundler/issues/4630
The workaround is adding a sticky bit to the offending directories.
I am no expert in this but could you introduce an additional check so that it just ignores Microsofts strange directory modes when run under Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux?
Best regards,
Mathias
Updated by terceiro (Antonio Terceiro) over 8 years ago
most probably a lot of other things besides Ruby will fail miserably, so they will have to fix that in Windows itself.
Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 8 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue
Thank you for reporting with the essential information "on Windows Subsystem for Linux".
Unless special condition, such issues are considered issues of Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Such a real world compatibility problem will help them ;-)
https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues