On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Aviram Jenik wrote:
> I'd rather not modify the application itself, and not wrap it with scripts.
> The best solution would be to somehow change the umask of the *directory*
> without affecting the global umask.
> I was hoping there would be a simple and straightforward way to do it under
> UNIX...
1. MODIFY THE APPLICATION (if you have access to its source code)!
Make it read the desired umask from a configuration file, environment
or argument list.
2. If you have no access to its source code, then wrapping it with scripts
and/or aliasing it - is a time-honored Unix way.
--- Omer
There is no IGLU Cabal. They stopped arguing how many angels can dance on
a pinhead because the question of trying to work around a program which
does not control umask - was better in pointlessness, and thus the former
Cabal dissolved.
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