Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:25:47PM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>> - is it normal to honor umask when creating directories and not >> when installing files? > I'd say it was normal to honour umask at all times. People who ask for > applications to ignore umask because they have a silly umask set, > usually need repeatedly kicking in the head. Amen. People who install applications with a umask of 077 and then find no one can run them are a self-correcting problem. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
