bug#24659: 'mkdir' procedure is neither thread-safe nor safe (2.0.12)

Hi, skribis: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 06:39:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello! > > [...] > >> Furthermore, AFAICS, the above logic is redundant with what the kernel >> does anyway. That is, in a single-threaded program, >> >> mask = umask (0); >> umask (mask);

bug#24659: 'mkdir' procedure is neither thread-safe nor safe (2.0.12)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 06:39:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! [...] > Furthermore, AFAICS, the above logic is redundant with what the kernel > does anyway. That is, in a single-threaded program, > > mask = umask (0); > umask

bug#24659: 'mkdir' procedure is neither thread-safe nor safe (2.0.12)

Hello! When the optional ‘mode’ argument to the ‘mkdir’ procedure is omitted, umask(2) is used to find out what the current mask is and to compute the mode argument to mkdir(2): --8<---cut here---start->8--- if (SCM_UNBNDP (mode)) { mask = umask