On Monday 17 March 2008 16:20:42 James Keenan via RT wrote:
> If someone could flesh out the intent of this ticket a bit more, I
> suspect someone fluent in Perl 5 could take it, since most files are
> written by Perl 5 processes.
>
> Some guidance as to how to create read-only files on various OSes would
> also be helpful.
I had to add "set modeline" to my .vimrc, but now generated files respect the
line:
/* ex: set ro:
... when I edit them with Vim.
Making sure that all generated files have a proper modeline seems like an
easier solution than trying to get cross-platform file permissions working.
-- c
