On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:12:00AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > When I was doing `rm -r` on a build tree it pointed out that > driver/split/ghc-split.prl > and > driver/mangler/ghc-asm.prl > were write-protected. Tacking this down, they're generated from .lprl > with unlit... then (in mk/suffix.mk) they are `chmod 444`-ed. Is this a > problem? Is the purpose to remind people that those are generated files, > so don't change them? (hmm... if someone has a restrictive umask like > 027, will this circumvent it? would `chmod -w` make more sense?)
umask only affects file creation, not chmod. > I know, I can use `rm -rf` in order to unquestioningly follow UNIX > permissions model... Stefan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
