Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:17:03 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/86484: [PATCH] mkfifo(1) uses wrong permissions Message-ID: <20080128041703.GA80837@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200801271249.m0RCnRWb000216@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200801271249.m0RCnRWb000216@freefall.freebsd.org>
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POSIX's description of how umask interacts with -m for various tools is a maze of twisting little references, all different; it wouldn't surprise me if they meant something other than what they said. :) To take a step back, I would argue that mkfifo(1), mkdir(1), and install(1) should all have similar semantics with respect to -m, to reduce confusion. What those semantics are, I'm not sure. Solaris 10 seems to behave as FreeBSD does, and Linux 2.6.12 seems to behave as Toby Petersin wants FreeBSD to behave.
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