* Re: umask
@ 1993-05-27 6:47 Paul Haahr
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From: Paul Haahr @ 1993-05-27 6:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alan; +Cc: es, rc
> Is there a reason why rc barfs on a umask greater than
> 0777?
probably because we never thought anyone would want one higher than
that and nobody complained before.
changed (i wouldn't really call it fixed) in es-0.9
paul
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* umask
@ 1993-05-27 5:31 Alan Watson
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From: Alan Watson @ 1993-05-27 5:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rc
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.
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