Re: special patch for /CVS/entries permissions

[Mark D. Baushke]

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address@hidden writes:

> I am in the position of needing that the /CVS/entries file that is
> created on checkout to be group writable

Why do you believe you need this?

It is almost always a bad idea to share checked out trees amongst
multiple users.

> By default it is only owner writable and even if i manually chmod it,
> on the next checkout the generic permissions are restored.

umask 002

This is a *NIX command to change the default permissions of newly
created files and directories. Your default is probably a umask of '022'
You may use the 'umask' command without any arguments to see the current
value.

> I aim to change those generic permissions from 644 to 664

No need. The cvs command honors the user's umask.

> I am in the process of finding where exactly in the source code of cvs
> are these permissions defined , and i wonder if anyone has any ideea
> about this

It is not handled in the source code. It is part of how fopen() and
friends operate on a POSIX system with regard to the user's umask
setting for the current shell.

        -- Mark
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