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

[Eric Sunshine]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:42:26 -0600 (CST), Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > This 'read-only another user ID' applies to FILE.in but not to FILE -
> > FILE must be writable by our (>). Is it OK this way?
> > cp srcdir/FILE.in builddir/FILE
> > chmod +w builddir/FILE
> > sed ... <srcdir/FILE.in >builddir/FILE
> Seems good to me!
> I would prefix that with rm -f builddir/FILE just to make sure.

Looks good to me too.  And, of course, as Eric Siegerman suggested, using  
'u+w' rather than '+w' would be even more appropriate.

-- ES