C-ISAM isopen default mode

Posted in 1991

Andy Knight — Tue, 10 Dec 91 14:52:46 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The isbuild() function call invokes open() with O_CREAT set and the mode argument set to 0664. Surely it makes more sense to specify mode 0666 and allow the ultimate control to be in the hands of the umask value ! If anybody knows why Informix do this, can they please tell me ?