On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:19:06AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > So how about the following strategy for $umask: > > 1. I back out my patch > > 2. we save the existing $umask when setting it to 077 in main > 3. we temporarily restore that umask for saving attachments and pipe > commands > 4. we create new mailboxes unconditionally as 077, but use the > permissions of the existing mailbox when updating it. This works > for mbox, but we would need to stat the root directory of > maildir/mh and save that mode when updating.
this poses the question why you would change the umask in the first place? you can always create files with a stricter mode than umask, only a more liberal mode needs an additional chmod. regarding attachments specifically, i considered asking the user for the requested mode after the file name. however, i tend to think that this wouldn't be too helpful, given that the development of a "press enter twice"-reflex would be sort of inevitable. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.
