On Monday, March 12, 2018 at 8:44:23 AM UTC+10, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2018-03-11 23:32, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > When I set the umask of my laptop to 0002, then I can run doctests. > > However, 0002 makes the created files/directories /more/ permissive by > > making it group writable. So this seems like a bug in Sage to me; at > > least it contradicts the error message... > > It doesn't really contradict the error message, it's just how you look > at it. I am checking permissions relative to the umask. > > If your umask is 0002, it means that you consider your group trusted. If > your umask is 0022, then your group is untrusted. > > Ah, I see; that makes sense. Thank you for the pointer to umask.
I've been trying to figure out what changed between these Ubuntu versions that led to this change (I know I can fix it by adding a umask 0002 to my ~/.profile ), but I cannot find yet why. Anyways, that's not for sage-devel. Best, Travis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
