Please revert. This is not the solution. It is also *blatantly* untrue that nobody cares. We (at least Niels, Stefan, and I--we didn't discuss this with Peter) do care, but we want a proper solution, and this is not it. We agree that there should not be a call to umask in the code, but we should also check the modes that are used in calls to creat, open, mkdir, etc. If you think this umask thing is important for you, say so in the bug report and increase the priority accordingly. You can also *talk* to people if something is important to you. Fabian wrote:

Update of /cvsroot/monetdb/MonetDB/src/gdk In directory sc8-pr-cvs16.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7068

Modified Files: gdk_utils.mx Log Message: Because nobody cares but me. Don't wipe out the user's umask if gdk_dont_unset_umask is set in the environment. Can't use GDKgetenv as that stuff is not yet initialised at this point.

Index: gdk_utils.mx =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/monetdb/MonetDB/src/gdk/gdk_utils.mx,v retrieving revision 1.196 retrieving revision 1.197 diff -u -d -r1.196 -r1.197 --- gdk_utils.mx 14 Nov 2007 13:22:59 -0000 1.196 +++ gdk_utils.mx 28 Nov 2007 11:59:39 -0000 1.197 @@ -1636,7 +1636,8 @@ if (GDKrecovery && unlink(GDKLOCK) < 0) { GDKfatal("GDKlockHome: unlock DB failed\n"); } - umask(0000); + if (getenv("gdk_dont_unset_umask") == NULL) + umask(0000); if (MT_lockf(GDKLOCK, F_TLOCK, 4, 1) < 0) { GDKlockFile = 0; GDKfatal("GDKlockHome: Database lock '%s' denied\n", GDKLOCK);

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