Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.

Yes, sorry, I have not dealt with umask in some time.

> > 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.

Agreed, but I was thinking of a generic case.

> > 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.

I'm not fully familiar with the sematics of fopen (I personally dislike fopen 
&c)

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