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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jasonr <at> gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:38:09 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 865 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  jasonr <at> gnu.org,  emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:45:29 -0400
> 
> > So you are saying we should assume that when umask has its two lower
> > mode bits set to zero, the intent is to create a private file
> > accessible only by the user who runs Emacs?  I don't like such
> > assumptions, but if I'm the only one, so be it.
> 
> It's not an assumption: it's what default-file-modes says.

On Posix platforms, yes.  The MS-Windows access right set is richer
than just Read, Write, Execute.

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