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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libutil/util.cc | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc index e2f5b087f13f..1f923fe6bc0f 100644 --- a/src/libutil/util.cc +++ b/src/libutil/util.cc @@ -339,10 +339,11 @@ static void _deletePath(const Path & path, unsigned long long & bytesFreed) bytesFreed += st.st_blocks * 512; if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) { - /* Make the directory writable. */ - if (!(st.st_mode & S_IWUSR)) { - if (chmod(path.c_str(), st.st_mode | S_IWUSR) == -1) - throw SysError(format("making ‘%1%’ writable") % path); + /* Make the directory accessible. */ + const auto PERM_MASK = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IXUSR; + if ((st.st_mode & PERM_MASK) != PERM_MASK) { + if (chmod(path.c_str(), st.st_mode | PERM_MASK) == -1) + throw SysError(format("chmod ‘%1%’") % path); } for (auto & i : readDirectory(path)) |