from a security prespective, touch should not allow everyone to have write permissions to the file, if someones needs such a permission, chmod(1) can be used later. I have tried touch(1) from coreutils and OpenBSD, both set the default permissions to 644.
Raiz diff --git a/touch.c b/touch.c index 6e63bf8..a849901 100644 --- a/touch.c +++ b/touch.c @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ touch(const char *file) eprintf("utimensat %s:", file); if (cflag) return; - if ((fd = open(file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0666)) < 0) + if ((fd = open(file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0644)) < 0) eprintf("open %s:", file); ret = futimens(fd, times); close(fd);