Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions

> The rights on the files should be sufficient for the compiler to go through
> the tree and compile the kernel for you. If it bothers you, you can just run
> chmod -R to correct it.

Yeah but it took me a couple of weeks and a few updates of my kernel
to find it...
Some one could have broke in and changed things without being root and
I wouldn't have noticed it.

> I guess that it will not be corrected.

I just find it odd that I now have to check permissions all over the
place to make sure everything is safe.

- David Brown
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