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[Tony Hoyle]

Richard Wirth wrote:
  > Ok you're right my umask causes the loss of write permissions in the
> first two cases.
> 
> TH> The third case is probably an edit/watch on the file forcing it read
> TH> only.  Updates without merges work OK.. I do them rather a lot!
> 
> No I have no edit/watches at all on this small test repository.
> Updates without merge do reset the write permissions in any case.

Hmm.. such a problem would affect win32 too as the user write 
permissions are used there.

Possibly an x86-64 thing or even a compiler issue.  I can't help with 
that as both my amd64 machines run Windows at the moment...

> Unfortunatly I have not figured out how to produce a core whith the
> 2.6.11.4-20a kernel :-(

Does setting ulimit not work?

Tony