Peter Tribble wrote:
On 3/23/07, Mark Shellenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The original plan was to allow the inheritance of owner/group/other
permissions. Unfortunately, during ARC reviews we were forced to remove
that functionality, due to POSIX compliance and security concerns.

What exactly is the POSIX compliance requirement here?

The ignoring of a users umask.

(It's also not clear to me how *not* allowing control of permissions
helps security in any way.)


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