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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: CNews problems
Message-ID: <2703@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 Dec 89 18:41:45 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>and what was the good reason berzerkeley used to change the behavior
>of chmod so that it used the umask?

Mu.

What was the good reason you used to assume that it was Berkeley who
changed it?  V7's "chmod" command, when you said

	chmod +w file

used the umask; S3's and S5's did not.  Berkeley just did what AT&T
first told them to do, and didn't change their mind when some other
group at AT&T changed theirs....