standards/86484: [PATCH] mkfifo(1) uses wrong permissions

[David Schultz]

The following reply was made to PR standards/86484; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Schultz <das at FreeBSD.ORG>
To: rwatson at FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: toby at apple.com, freebsd-standards at FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: standards/86484: [PATCH] mkfifo(1) uses wrong permissions
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:17:03 -0500

 POSIX's description of how umask interacts with -m for various
 tools is a maze of twisting little references, all different;
 it wouldn't surprise me if they meant something other than what
 they said. :)
 
 To take a step back, I would argue that mkfifo(1), mkdir(1), and
 install(1) should all have similar semantics with respect to -m,
 to reduce confusion. What those semantics are, I'm not sure.
 Solaris 10 seems to behave as FreeBSD does, and Linux 2.6.12 seems
 to behave as Toby Petersin wants FreeBSD to behave.