Re: port-i386/51358: /usr/bin/cvs fakes file permissions

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/51358; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-i386/51358: /usr/bin/cvs fakes file permissions
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 20:04:01 +0000

 On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 03:25:01PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  >  On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 03:10:00PM +0000, richard%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  >  > >Synopsis:       /usr/bin/cvs fakes file permissions
  >  
  >  For a strange value of "fake" - it obeys your umask.
 
 I'm missing something -- he said nothing about what his umask was, and
 if he had his umask set to 111 or something silly like that, it's his
 fault.
 
  >  At least in the base tree we consider everything requiring exec permissions
  >  in the source tree a bug and fix it.
 
 sure, but as it is it ought to work, and it does for me, including in
 an i386 chroot...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost