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Commits on Mar 24, 2020

  1. doc: Files in the store have modes 444/555, not 644/755 

    This line has been this way since it was written, in 9e08f5e
in 2006.

I think it was just a small mistake then; Eelco's thesis earlier
that year says the permission on each file is set to 0444 or 0555
in a derivation's output as part of the build process.  In any
case I'm pretty sure that's the behavior now.
    @gnprice
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  2. Merge pull request #3441 from gnprice/pr-doc-store-ro 

    doc: Files in the store have modes 444/555, not 644/755
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@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ the information that Nix considers important. For instance,
timestamps are elided because all files in the Nix store have their
timestamp set to 0 anyway. Likewise, all permissions are left out
except for the execute bit, because all files in the Nix store have
644 or 755 permission.</para>
444 or 555 permission.</para>

<para>Also, a NAR archive is <emphasis>canonical</emphasis>, meaning
that “equal” paths always produce the same NAR archive. For instance,