[cvsnt] Re: Administrative file perms in checkoutlist

[Tony Hoyle]

Glen Starrett wrote:
> 
> When I check out the files normally the exec is set properly too.  It's 
> just when the admin files are rebuilt that it doesn't set the perms. 
> Same thing happens for .pl or no extension files.
> 
Hmm we deliberately don't honour permission bits in CVSROOT (partly 
because of the problems it caused on some NT machines and partly because 
it adds an extra layer of security - if you can't checkin an executable 
script it's harder to do nasty things with the server).

Perhaps we need a flag in config to enable this where required.

Tony