On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Wakko Warner wrote:
> You're creating a file with mode 777 and later chmodding it.
No, I'm creating it with mode 000.
> I don't know the code that uses fopen, but it could also be possible that a
> file that already exsists with a specific mode gets it's mode clobbered.
These files should not exist - they are all "working files" used by the
content scanning code. Anyway, whether they exist or not, they should
all have the mode that is being set for them.
> One could use open(2) then fdopen(3), but again, I don't know the code well
> enough to know for sure.
That is another possibility, but it would involve decoding the second
argument of "fopen", and I'm not sure it is worth it.
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