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Re: Reproducable cvs hickup



On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 10:35:29AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I haven't noticed this, and I did an update in the last few days.
> 
> Are you using CVSREAD, or did you?  Long ago, people used to do that
> (including me) and doing 'cvs edit' or similar would turn on the w bit
> and set a watch.  However a bunch of things ended up being trouble, and
> I view those as bugs in the build (eg. cp -p of sources with code that
> expected to write, and something about make cce).  Several people were
> basically indifferent to these issues, saying it was my fault for using
> CVSREAD, and because CVSREAD wasn't actually helping me much, I turned
> it off and did chmod +w on sources.

I do not remember using it, but maybe I did (and this checkout is very
old).

> What is the permission value on doc/TODO?

-r--r--r--  1 martin  wheel   41450 Sep 11 13:58 TODO

I just +w'd it.

Martin


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