On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:16 -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:46:21PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > Could someone refresh my memory as to why quilt creates files in .pc
> > with 000 permissions?
>
> I believe it's an artifact of GNU patch. I think lots of users agree
> that it's annoying. Everything from rsync to doxygen complains about
> those files.
Yeah, it's annoying. There are workarounds for it, but I just couldn't
remember where the restriction came from.
> Markus Oberhumer posted a patch back in June that supposedly fixed it
> (at least for him), but his messages are marked no-archive so it's not
> in the archived thread ("Sane permissions: no more mode 000 files").
How ironic. I even responded to that thread. Sorry Markus.
josh
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