Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CNews problems
Message-ID: <1989Dec5.181020.29682@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13657@reed.UUCP> <1989Dec3.014328.9176@utzoo.uucp> <8912041651.AA01167@twiddle.eng.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 89 18:10:20 GMT

In article <8912041651.AA01167@twiddle.eng.umd.edu> djm@twiddle.eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
>>The only way I know of that stuff could get created unreadable
>>is if your umask was set to turn off the read bits, and chmod will *not*
>>override that (i.e., "chmod +rx" probably wouldn't have helped).
>
>However, "chmod a+rx" *will* override the umask.

I'm reluctant to do so as default, however, on the assumption that the
umask is usually set for a good reason.  We've had a suggestion in the
past that it would be nice to have a permission checker to report
odd-looking permissions on a supposedly-correctly-installed system...
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