Am 04.04.2016 um 08:58 schrieb Boruch Baum: > [...] > I'm getting a bit uncomfortable about starting this thread, because > upon reflection, it seems that one consequence of setting the > system-wide may be that the 027 umask will end up having some system > account creating a file that should be world-readable or > world-executable, but because of the umask, it now would not be, and > so would break stuff.
This is why a process creating a file that needs to have a specific mode must use chmod(2) to set that mode and may not rely on a specific setting of umask.
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