Randall <snip> > >Well, 0666 does not seem like a good idea, since it gives > everyone the > >right to change the files. Of course the main use of umask > is to restrict > >access from group and other. > > It's a very good idea and has been "the right way" (or, to use a > now-archaic phrase, "The Unix Way (tm)") ever since version 7 > Unix when > umask was introduced. The whole point of writing the code to > give new files > full access (0666 or 0777) is so that the user is in complete > control by > virtue of the "umask." > > You do understand that the umask value is "subtracted" > (bit-wise) from the > file mode specified by the program creating the new file > system entity, right?
No, I was actually under the impression that is was substracted from 777. Thank you for setting me straight. (That comes working with windows...) <snip> Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
