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Date:      21 Oct 1998 11:05:05 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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:  <xzpvhleqo8u.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:37:26 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <199810210245.KAA14596@spinner.netplex.com.au> <199810210437.VAA01979@apollo.backplane.com>

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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
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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