On 2019-01-30, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > That's a question about pkg_add(1). Simple experimentation shows that > just like makewhatis(8), pkg_add(1) uses whatever umask it inherits. > For most files pkg_add creates, that's fine because permissions are > explicitly set according to packing lists. But makewhatis(8) is > just forked and executed.
Similar has come up before - as well as mandoc.db, @sample'd files and files in /var/db/pkg are affected by umask - the former sometimes resulting in an unusable package installation. >
