Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> You're welcome to push that. > > Pushed it. > >> I noticed that it provides the additional benefit >> of making the generated getdate.c file read-only. > > Huh? It does not do that for me, in a testdir made with > "gnulib-tool --create-testdir". I guess you have something in the > coreutils Makefiles or in 'bootstrap' that makes generated files > read-only.
Actually I just misread the permissions. With my umask, it's -rw-------. So it is still writable.
