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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