Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files

[Eric Sunshine]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> How about cp FILE.in FILE and then perform the transformation from
> FILE.in's contents to (>) FILE?

This will not work correctly on Windows.  At best, it will throw an 
error because FILE is locked (being read by sed) while the > is trying 
to open it for writing.  At worst, you will simply lose the contents of 
FILE (for the same reason).  In my experiments, the latter occurred.

-- ES