Re: cvs chmod ?

[Larry Jones]

Lee Sau Dan writes:
>   
> This won't  work.  The reason is  simple.  CVS doesn't  care about the
> file  permissions in  its repository.   Files  stored in  CVS are  not
> stored with  the permission setting.   This is well documented  in the
> CVS manual.  So, RTFM.

That's not quite true -- CVS uses the execute permissions of the file in
the repository to determine the execute permissions of the checked out
file.  Note, however, that the execute permissions of the file in the
repository is set when it is first created and never modified later. 

-Larry Jones

It COULD'VE happened by accident! -- Calvin