Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Link with permissions (was: bitkeeper vs tla)

[Jason McCarty]

Robin Farine wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 20.43, John Meinel wrote:
> 
> > What about this. Tla keeps the meta information about file
> > permissions separate from the files themselves. (I think right
> > now the way it checks if permissions have changed is to do a stat
> > on the revlib and the tree, and then see what the permission bits
> > are).
> 
> It also traverses my mind from time to time. Instead of 
> systematically checking and recording permission changes, I 
> sometimes wonder whether Arch could provide a command that 
> explicitly records permissions from or applies permissions to a 
> tree.
> 
> In fact, a completely independent command could handle this, Arch 
> would then treat the file that keeps track of the permissions (say 
> a mapping of inventory ids to permissions) just like any other 
> source file.

Should we even care about any permissions besides a file's executable
bit? At least it's the only permission I find myself changing in arch
trees.

-- 
Jason McCarty <address@hidden>