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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio mktemp.c
Message-ID:  <199810211608.JAA06244@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <199810210245.KAA14596@spinner.netplex.com.au> <199810210437.VAA01979@apollo.backplane.com> <xzpvhleqo8u.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no>

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:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
:>     I could go either way.  My personal preference would be to fix the manual
:>     page to read 'mode 0600 masked by the current umask' and *not* put in the
:>     fchmod(), because I can certainly see a program expecting to create a
:>     file with read-only permissions by setting the umask and calling 
:>     mkstemp() to get the read+write descriptor.  It would be phenominally dumb
:>     programmer to depend on it, but I can see it.
:
:So we should adapt FreeBSD to be nice to phenomenally dumb
:programmers? I feel a rerun of the fclose(NULL) debate coming...
:
:DES
    
    Huh?  That's kind of an out-of-the-blue comment.  I have no idea what
    you are talking about.

					-Matt

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