Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CNews problems
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.001602.11796@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13657@reed.UUCP> <1989Dec3.014328.9176@utzoo.uucp> <8912041651.AA01167@twiddle.eng.umd.edu> <1989Dec5.181020.29682@utzoo.uucp> <17410@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 89 00:16:02 GMT

In article <17410@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>>I'm reluctant to do so as default, however, on the assumption that the
>>umask is usually set for a good reason.
>
>and what was the good reason berzerkeley used to change the behavior
>of chmod so that it used the umask?

They didn't.  This was a property of chmod as shipped by Bell Labs in V7.
On the whole, it's a good one.
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