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From: alan@numm.nu.oz (Alan Hargreaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: CNews problems
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.043342.1490@numm.nu.oz>
Date: 11 Dec 89 04:33:42 GMT
References: <13657@reed.UUCP> <1989Dec3.014328.9176@utzoo.uucp> <8912041651.AA01167@twiddle.eng.umd.edu> <1989Dec5.181020.29682@utzoo.uucp> <17410@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Dec8.001602.11796@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Dec8.001602.11796@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <17410@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>>
>>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.

hafta agree with henry, just checked my src to make sure, chmod in V7
(hey we must be one of the few v7 sites left, let alone the fact that it is
very close to the 1st non dec port) definately checks the umask.

alan.
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