R. David Murray added the comment:
I *want* it to be the default, since I think that is the typical use case, but
the existing default behavior means that such a backward incompatible change
would not be acceptable for exactly the reason you state. So yes, I want it as
a new flag. ("exist_really_ok", he says with tongue in cheek.) I haven't
given much thought to the API, but perhaps there could be a value for the umask
that means "don't care"?
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