On Monday 17 March 2008 16:20:42 James Keenan via RT wrote: > If someone could flesh out the intent of this ticket a bit more, I > suspect someone fluent in Perl 5 could take it, since most files are > written by Perl 5 processes. > > Some guidance as to how to create read-only files on various OSes would > also be helpful.
I had to add "set modeline" to my .vimrc, but now generated files respect the line: /* ex: set ro: ... when I edit them with Vim. Making sure that all generated files have a proper modeline seems like an easier solution than trying to get cross-platform file permissions working. -- c