On Wednesday, 21 March 2007 at 18:37, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:19:06AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > > So how about the following strategy for $umask: > > > > 1. I back out my patch > > > > 2. we save the existing $umask when setting it to 077 in main > > 3. we temporarily restore that umask for saving attachments and pipe > > commands > > 4. we create new mailboxes unconditionally as 077, but use the > > permissions of the existing mailbox when updating it. This works > > for mbox, but we would need to stat the root directory of > > maildir/mh and save that mode when updating. > > this poses the question why you would change the umask in the first > place? you can always create files with a stricter mode than umask, only > a more liberal mode needs an additional chmod. a fair point. > regarding attachments specifically, i considered asking the user for the > requested mode after the file name. however, i tend to think that this > wouldn't be too helpful, given that the development of a "press enter > twice"-reflex would be sort of inevitable.
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