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- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 86 13:19:46 cst
- >From: ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!msb (Mark Brader)
- Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
-
- > From: mcnc!duke!rrt@seismo.UUCP (Russ Tuck)
- > Subject: Re: TZ and TERM per process
- (May I remind the moderator to watch out for inappropriate Subjects?)
- [ You're right: I missed that one. -mod ]
-
- > I heartily agree that umask should be per-directory rather than per-process.
- > This is more natural and useful, allowing related files to be given the same
- > protection automatically as they are created in a directory.
-
- And I heartily DISAGREE. My umask is 022, and when I create a file
- whose mode is not 644 or 755, it is a rare and earthshaking event.
- Seems to me that if I was a secretive umask 077 type, or a permissive
- umask 0 type, I'd feel exactly the same way. Directories with booby
- traps are the mark of VMS, not UNIX.
-
- [ The moderator reminds the posters that attacks on ideas as being
- appropriate to a given operating system don't add much to the discussion.
- Furthermore, if you set the umask on your home directory to 022,
- and that were inherited through your directory subtree, you would
- get the same effect for your files as with a per-process umask.
-
- I'd be really interested in any comments from John Mashey as
- to what arguments arose concerning this idea when the per-process
- umask was decided upon. -mod ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 25
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