[wp-hackers] .htaccess being written ?

[Podz]

I've got the latest cvs running in xampp.
Looking through what's new - and doing nothing at all except clicking 
tabs - I get to the permalinks screen. I get a warning:

Warning: file(C:\apache\xampp\xampp\htdocs\wordpress/.htaccess): failed 
to open stream: No such file or directory in 
C:\apache\xampp\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\admin-functions.php on 
line 429

Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in 
C:\apache\xampp\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\admin-functions.php on 
line 429

And then a .htaccess is written to file with no intervention from me.
It's contents are:
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/

# END WordPress

Everything inside the wp admin then gets a server error until I delete 
the .htaccess file.

It's no problem, just thought that if it hadn't been reported someone 
might need to know ?

I know if I had a ,htaccess it probably wouldn't happen, but it just 
seemed odd.

P.