java.io/202: File creation doesn't observe umask

[Tom Tromey]

The following reply was made to PR java.io/202; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
Cc: tromey@cygnus.com, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: java.io/202: File creation doesn't observe umask
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:46:03 -0700 (PDT)

 >> Classes that create OS files (i.e. java.io.FileOutputStream)
 >> do not obey the user's current umask.  Files are always
 >> created with permissions -rw-r--r-- regardless of the user's
 >> umask setting.
 
 Bryce>  umask is being honored, but we're creating files with the
 Bryce>  wrong mode (so changing umask from 022 to 000 appears to have
 Bryce>  no effect). The following patch should fix that. OK to commit?
 
 When I try a simple test program with Sun's JDK (1.1.7, I think), with
 my umask set to 000, it creates a file with mode 0664.  Do you know
 what JDK 1.2 does?  I think it makes sense to be JDK compatible here.
 (When I wrote this code I didn't run a test -- I just picked what I
 thought would be reasonable.)
 
 Tom