[cvsnt] Re: Resent: Bug in "update.c" regarding file attributes on checkout/update

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Apr 5 23:31:27 BST 2004


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Sturm, Michael wrote:
> Sorry to submit this that way, but registering an account in the bug database failed.
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think there is a bug in "update.c" that prevents file "read only" from propper working.
> By now I can remove all access rights except "r" with "chacl" and all files still come 
> writeable to the local hard disk when checking out or updateing. A trace with "cvs -t -t -t update"

In update it doesn't really matter...  I don't think it should be checking 
there anyway, so it's lucky it doesn't work - the read/write status of the 
files on the disk has nothing to do with the repository (in fact it'd annoy me 
intensely if it made these files read only).

Tony



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