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Re: [PATCH] doc: describe the file permissions set by mktemp


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: describe the file permissions set by mktemp
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:40:06 -0600
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On 07/13/2011 07:25 AM, Benoît Knecht wrote:
>>> +The group and others get no permission, while the user gets read and 
>>> write\n\
>>> +permissions (as well as search, for directories), possibly reduced by 
>>> the\n\
>>> +umask.\n\

>> It's unfortunate that this runs onto 3 lines
> 
> I completely agree. I tried to make it shorter, but couldn't come up
> with a good formulation.

How about a one-liner:

Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus umask restrictions.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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