On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:35:02PM +0000, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
Right. If you have set umask to 077 to prevent stuff from being accessed by anyone but yourself, you wouldn't want the source files to get liberal permissions. If the users can't see the pike installation at all, they will not get irritating warnings.
i can not tell what point you are trying to make. do you expect sysadmins to reset their umask before installation for this to work when most applications do not need that (because they do not create files during installation)
sure, it could be added to the README that before installation the umask should be set to 0022, but if the permissions were set correctly when dumping files life would be easier for sysadmins.
mysql also had a bug like this and it has been fixed accordingly: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=52213
greetings, martin.