Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Message-ID: <01C0FF45.4D3DDCA0.jorgens@coho.net>
From: Steve Jorgensen <jorgens AT coho DOT net>
Reply-To: "jorgens AT coho DOT net" <jorgens AT coho DOT net>
To: "Cygwin List (E-mail)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cvs via Cygwin (W98) to FAT to Linux - permissions
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:11:06 -0700
X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Sounds good, but I'm confused.

How can the script see the file permissions before they're received, and 
where can it get the file permission information from after they're 
received and saved without the information?

-----Original Message-----
From:	Randall R Schulz [SMTP:rrschulz AT cris DOT com]
Sent:	Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:05 PM
To:	jorgens AT coho DOT net; Cygwin List (E-mail)
Subject:	RE: cvs via Cygwin (W98) to FAT to Linux - permissions

Steve,

There's nothing wrong with wanting this outcome, but modifying the CVS
command itself is almost certainly not the way to get it.

Much better would be to wrap CVS in a script that would perform the
necessary actions required to achieve this effect. As a shell script, this
wouldn't be particularly tough.

In fact, it reminds me of a program I wrote once, you gave it a list of
file names and a command to invoke. It saved the modify and read times of
the named files, ran the command and after it exited, restored the mod and
read times on the files. Although that was a C program, if I was writing it 
today, I'd probably do it in BASH.

Be sure to take care with signal handling.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:34 2001-06-27, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>...
>
>That brings me back to the more limited, but vastly simpler idea of adding
>a feature to cvs that allows producing a script of chmod commands during
>check-out that reflects the proper file permissions.  I might even attempt
>this myself after re-learning such things as how a make file works since I
>haven't done C programming in about 12 years now.


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/