Re: [Quilt-dev] Files in .pc with 000 permissions

[Josh Boyer]

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