From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: umask and permissions of installed files
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:07:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aspra8rg2c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In connection with addressing bug#3800 I would like to ask: what is
the right thing to do wrt the installing user's umask when installing?
The two reasonable options would seem to be
i) ignore it, and make the install world-readable, with the exception
that pre-existing "common" directories should not have their
permissions altered, as requested in bug#3800. Ideally, the install
whould warn about any non-standard permissions.
ii) respect it, and don't mess with the permissions of the install at all
Option i) seems like the right thing to me.
At the moment, there is an inconsistent mish-mash of i) and ii).
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 1:07 Glenn Morris [this message]
2009-09-03 2:42 ` umask and permissions of installed files Stefan Monnier
2009-09-03 3:16 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-03 7:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-09-03 7:54 ` Miles Bader
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