[cvsnt] Re: File Permissions problem

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Mon Jan 16 15:16:16 GMT 2006


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Albe wrote:
> I'm sure this question has been made a thousand times, but is CVSUMASK 
> env variable still working in the actual cvsnt build??

It still works fine, although it's pretty pointless - you really need 
the RCS files to be readable... changing that is just going to create 
issues.

umask of course does not affect clients at all.

> I investigated a bit more and found that mask is created as 444 in the 
> code, ignoring the default value.

0444 &~ 002 is still 444.  You wouldn't expect to see any difference.

Tony



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