Hi Andreas, Markus, > On Friday, 2. June 2006 00:28, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > > Several months ago I got burned _badly_ by those mode 000 files in the .pc > > directory, causing severe problems with a source tree after unnoticed > > failures from a preceding cp/tar. > > > > This patch is in use at our local systems for quite some time. Please > > review and apply if you find it useful. > > Please try to get this fixed in GNU patch upstream if you care enough, then > we > can also change quilt. I agree that mode 0 is stupid, but it's something we > have to live with. > > Note that the diff (-z) and pop commands have workarounds for this problem as > well; grep for "zero-size". > > The problem you had with your backup scripts are/were a bug in those scripts; > they should cope with this situation.
These are also bugs in tar and cp themselves. There is no reason why a program would need to open a zero-sized file to copy it, so no reason for a failure in the first place. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
