negative group permissions?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 24/02/2012 14:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> Looking at usr.sbin/lpr/lpr/lpr.c at around line 847 (RELENG_9):
>> > 
>> >         (void) snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s/.seq", pp->spool_dir);
>> >         seteuid(euid);
>> >         if ((fd = open(buf, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0661)) < 0) {
>> >                 printf("%s: cannot create %s\n", progname, buf);
>> >                 exit(1);
>> >         }
>> >         if (flock(fd, LOCK_EX)) {
>> >                 printf("%s: cannot lock %s\n", progname, buf);
>> >                 exit(1);
>> >         }
>> > 
>> > It remains a mystery why these files are created with mode 0661. Mode 
> Isn't .seq above has mode 641?
> 
> % chmod 641 z
> % ls -al z
> -rw-r----x  1 mexas  wheel  0 Feb 24 13:59 z
> %

A umask setting of 022 would explain that.

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