Re: [Quilt-dev] .pc file permissions

[Dave Dodge]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:41:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It gave me a few permissionless files:
>
> vmm:/home/akpm/e2fsprogs-1.39> l .pc/01-head_20060918/lib/e2p/percent.c
> ----------    1 akpm     akpm            0 Oct  6 12:25 
> .pc/01-head_20060918/lib/e2p/percent.c
> 
> Is that expected?

Yes.  When a pushed patch creates a new file in the tree, it results
in an empty file with 000 permissions under .pc.  It's a known issue
when other tools such as tar, rsync, doxygen, etc try to process the
resulting tree including the .pc directory.  The awkward permissions
are apparently a result of GNU patch.

There was a quilt patch posted back in June that supposedly got rid of
the 000 permissions, but it's not archived.

                                                  -Dave Dodge