From: Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: umask
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 01:31:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9305270531.AA19953@oldp.astro.wisc.edu> (raw)
What a day. Is there a reason why rc barfs on a umask greater than
0777? I have just modifed one of my scripts to protect a temporary
file by doing:
umask = `{ umask }
umask 077
...
umask $umask
and it now doesn't work properly if I use an escape from vi inside MH,
as MH sets umask to 7177 (quite why I don't know).
sh and sh5 seem to perform a umask (value & 0777), csh and bash give an
error message if the value is > 0777, but ksh goes ahead and does it.
next reply other threads:[~1993-05-27 5:31 UTC|newest]
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1993-05-27 5:31 Alan Watson [this message]
1993-05-27 6:47 umask Paul Haahr
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