Hello,

if you are on a platform other than Windows2003 or Mac OS X, you could help verify the chmod command issued from java. Please let us know if you experience problems.

- unzip the contents of the .zip file ChmodTest.zip to a temporary directory
This should result in 4 small .class files in org/python/util/install:
  ChildProcess.class
  ChildProcess$StderrMonitor.class
  ChildProcess$StdoutMonitor.class
  ChmodTest.class
Sources of these are checked in here:
  installer/src/java/org/python/util/install/ChildProcess.java
  installer/test/java/org/python/util/install/ChmodTest.java

- cd to the temporary directory

- java -cp . org.python.util.install.ChmodTest 755
This should create an empty file chmod.test in the temporary directory, with mode 755

- make more subsequent calls of the ChmodTest
any call with a mode as argument will change the mode of the existing file. Example:
  java -cp . org.python.util.install.ChmodTest 644







Please find my sample session from a Mac OS X terminal below:


Last login: Wed Nov  9 00:23:11 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
ibook:~ ohumbel$ cd temp
ibook:~/temp ohumbel$ ls
org

ibook:~/temp ohumbel$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_09"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_09-232)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-54, mixed mode)

ibook:~/temp ohumbel$ java -cp . org.python.util.install.ChmodTest 644
[ChildProcess] command 'chmod 644 /Users/ohumbel/temp/chmod.test' is now running...
[ChildProcess] ended normally
[ChmodTest] chmod command executed on /Users/ohumbel/temp/chmod.test

ibook:~/temp ohumbel$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwx   4 ohumbel  ohumbel  136 Nov  9 00:29 org
-rw-r--r--   1 ohumbel  ohumbel    0 Nov  9 00:31 chmod.test

ibook:~/temp ohumbel$ java -cp . org.python.util.install.ChmodTest 755
[ChildProcess] command 'chmod 755 /Users/ohumbel/temp/chmod.test' is now running...
[ChildProcess] ended normally
[ChmodTest] chmod command executed on /Users/ohumbel/temp/chmod.test

ibook:~/temp ohumbel$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwx   4 ohumbel  ohumbel  136 Nov  9 00:29 org
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ohumbel  ohumbel    0 Nov  9 00:31 chmod.test

ibook:~/temp ohumbel$