Re: umask(1), shell wrappers.

Posted in 1991

Alan Denney — Mon, 2 Dec 91 11:58:30 PST — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>> From uunet!rmy.emory.edu!informix-list-owner Mon Dec 2 04:16:16 1991 >> From: uunet!bnr.co.uk!A.Heskett >> Subject: umask(1), shell wrappers. >> To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu (Emory U. Informix List) >> >> (discussion about using umask to control file permissions on report >> output files) >> >> Does this really work, tho' ? I seem to remember trying it - can't do >> it now, no compiler :-( and not having any success: looked like >> the file permissions didn't depend on the umask. Course, I might >> just be completely wrong (again!!). >> >> Tony Heskett th@bnr.co.uk |Voice: (+44) 279 429531 x 2637 There was an old 4GL bug such that report output files would always be 660 regardless of umask. This was fixed in 4.0. Another similar bug did the same thing for error log files; this too was fixed in 4.0. -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." - Dan Quayle, referring to the MidEast situation