From: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>

It's silly to create directories without execute permission, or to
give permissions to 'other' but not the group-owner.

Write the permissions in octal and 'ls -l' format since these are much
easier to read than the named macros.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <tho...@redhat.com>
---
 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index e266251..7105c7b 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static int kvp_file_init(void)
        int alloc_unit = sizeof(struct kvp_record) * ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK;
 
        if (access(KVP_CONFIG_LOC, F_OK)) {
-               if (mkdir(KVP_CONFIG_LOC, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IROTH)) {
+               if (mkdir(KVP_CONFIG_LOC, 0755 /* rwxr-xr-x */)) {
                        syslog(LOG_ERR, " Failed to create %s", KVP_CONFIG_LOC);
                        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                }
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static int kvp_file_init(void)
                records_read = 0;
                num_blocks = 1;
                sprintf(fname, "%s/.kvp_pool_%d", KVP_CONFIG_LOC, i);
-               fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IROTH);
+               fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0644 /* rw-r--r-- */);
 
                if (fd == -1)
                        return 1;
-- 
1.7.11.7

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