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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#25223: chmod +w does not work |
| Date: | Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:15:21 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 |
Eugen Dedu wrote:
Is there a rationale for this, i.e. chmod to use umask?
It's specified by POSIX. I expect the idea was to make it a bit harder to grant permissions that the user didn't intend.
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