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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xman bug (known?)
Keywords: xman, permissions, bug
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.203706.2907@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 90 20:37:06 GMT
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Reply-To: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA
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I just stumbled upon a tricky big (more an ommission) in xman (X11R4, fixes
1- 18).
I just want to know whether this is a well-know and reported problem
before I file a bug report.

If a paranoid user sets his or her umask to 077, man pages formatted by
xman will end up with permission rw-------.  At least on SunOS4.1 
systems this is in contrast to man(1) which always leaves formatted man pages
with perms rw-rw-rw-. Otherwise other users won't be able to view that
man page later on (and it won't be reformatted either since it's already
there).

The fix is simple enough: add a chmod() call to handler.c:

*** ./handler.c.dist	Tue Oct  3 12:57:56 1989
--- ./handler.c	Fri Nov  2 10:59:09 1990
***************
*** 325,330 ****
--- 325,337 ----
  	      cmdbuf);
        PrintWarning( man_globals, error_buf);
      }
+ 
+     /* make sure the formatted man page is fully accessible by the world */
+     if (chmod(man_globals->save_file, 0666) != 0) {
+       sprintf(error_buf, "Couldn't set permissions on formatted man page '%s'.\n",
+ 	      man_globals->save_file);
+       PrintWarning( man_globals, error_buf);
+     }
      break;
    case 'C':
    case 'c':


-- 
Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704	(415) 642-4274 ext. 126