Re: makepmdist by Jarkko Hietaniemi- March 1, 2002 On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 05:12:55PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:> On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:07:44AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:> > mkdir requires a mode argument> > The mode argument is optional. Defaults to 0777 (mod your umask).The optionality is a relatively recent addition (5.6.0 and later),so if we want backward compatibility, we should supply it.(Besides, I think the default is silly and a security risk, it assumesthat your umask is set up okay, but that is...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.workers/2002/03/msg102.html |