Re: 0.17: open-with-O_CREAT needs third argument

[Paul Jarc]

Chuck Swiger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2007, at 3:44 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> 0666 is more appropriate here
>
> If you're creating a file on behalf of the user, I would expect it to
> receive permissions which reflect whatever umask(2) has been set to.

And so it will.  open() applies the umask to the permissions passed as
an argument, rather than using the argument directly.  To actually
create a world-writable file, you'd have to first set the umask to 0,
or chmod() the file after creating it.


paul