Re: [exim-dev] fopen(), umask, and file permissions

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] fopen(), umask, and file permissions
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:58:47PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > How about setting umask 077, creating an fopen wrapper which takes a
> > > mode as well, and adding code to the testsuite that greps through the
> > > code and raises an alarm whenever it finds an unwrapped fopen() call
> > > outside the wrapper itself?
> >
> > There is already a wrapper for opening msglogs, so I guess extending it
> > makes sense (but I can't remember if it uses fopen() or open()).
>
> Want me to file a bug?


No need. I already have it on my list of things to do, and filing a bug
just means that I have to respond. :-)

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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