Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Nov 1997 11:26:03 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Read-only 'cyclades.c' |
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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Kurt Huwig wrote: > > The file 'drivers/char/cyclades.c' is read-only in 2.0.x source tree. Does > there is a specific reason for this?
No. This tends to happen sometimes when people send me tar-files of updates rather than unified diffs. Depending on their setup (especially if they use rcs) this may be read-only or have other strange behaviour.
I tend to try to fix it when I notice it, but I'm not always very good at it.
Linus
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