Re: mkfifo default creation mode 0777

1999-08-26 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Sheldon Hearn: > I can't see why we use 0777. Would bad things happened if I changed this > to 0666 while I'm in there? I don't think so. I don't see any need of allowing FIFO to be executable... I'd say, go for it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@kel

Re: mkfifo default creation mode 0777

1999-08-26 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Sheldon Hearn: > I can't see why we use 0777. Would bad things happened if I changed this > to 0666 while I'm in there? I don't think so. I don't see any need of allowing FIFO to be executable... I'd say, go for it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PRO

mkfifo default creation mode 0777

1999-08-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I'm about to add a flag to mkfifo that allows you to specify creation mode. NetBSD does this already. However, there's a difference in the way our mkfifo and NetBSd's mkfifo create files. We create with permissions 0777 modified by umask. NetBSD creates with permissions 0666 modified b

mkfifo default creation mode 0777

1999-08-26 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I'm about to add a flag to mkfifo that allows you to specify creation mode. NetBSD does this already. However, there's a difference in the way our mkfifo and NetBSd's mkfifo create files. We create with permissions 0777 modified by umask. NetBSD creates with permissions 0666 modified