On 08/24/2011 03:45 PM, Cathey, Jim wrote:
Aren't most uses of 0666 implicitly assuming
some umask activity?

The point is that the 0666 is not to be assumed
to be the final value.  Also the point is that
to use this proposed new code in our system we
would have had to find it, and change it to something
else in the source, rather than relying on umask.
(Which is what umask is for.)

I'm more used to daemons that set a umask of 0 and then explicitly
choose their permissions.  I think that's a fairly standard
daemon-ish thing to do.  But anyway, I guess the status quo wins...

-i
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